dork
n. countablen. a person who is socially awkward or obsessed with things that others find boring. It is a lighthearted way to call someone a nerd, though it can be a bit mean depending on your tone.
n. a socially inept or unfashionable person, often characterized by an obsessive interest in niche or intellectual topics. Informal in register; while historically an insult, it is frequently used affectionately among friends.
He is such a dork when he talks about his stamp collection.
I felt like a total dork wearing a suit to a party where everyone else was in jeans.
The protagonist is portrayed as a lovable dork whose encyclopedic knowledge of 1980s cinema eventually proves instrumental in solving the mystery that baffles the more socially adept characters.
First use appears in the US c. 1961. The sense of a "silly person" is presumably from earlier use as a bowdlerization of dick (“penis”) in student slang, particularly the Midwest. Despite a common misconception, it has never referred specifically to a whale's penis, but penises in general. Alternative etymology derives from dialectal Norwegian dorg (“a mass; heap; a heavy, dimwitted, slovenly person”).
Uncertain; apparently from Scots. See dirk.
Commonly used as a mild pejorative or a self-deprecating label.