dorky

dorky

Describing someone or something that is socially awkward, nerdy, or stupid. I can't ask that dorky guy to the prom! I can't believe they want us to wear these dorky uniforms to school.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dorky

mod. tacky, stupid, or awkward. (From dork.) I don’t want any of this dorky food!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • have the gall to (do something)
  • have the gall to do
  • first world
  • can't do anything with
  • can't do anything with (someone or something)
  • get (someone or something) out of (one's) mind
  • get out of mind
  • desert (someone or something) to (someone or something)
  • desert to
  • if you can't beat 'em
References in periodicals archive
"There is something so delightfully engaging about this dorky dog," said Lisa Umina, founder and publisher of Halo Publishing.
The author lives with her husband - Scott, twin blessings - Katey & Haylea, and JoJo the Dorky Dog in Southeast Georgia.
After using the Model 48 Patriot in the high country of Utah to take the bull elk of my lifetime, my motto now is, "Life's too short to hunt with a dorky rifle."
Of course, dorky behavior sometimes intersects with nerdy, geeky, or jocky behavior.
Me, the dorky little ginger kid from Dublin who just finished school."
And I still remember watching all the conventions with my dad and grandfather - I was a really dorky kid.
That was Dirty dancing for me, if you want to get really dorky. Love me some Patrick Swayze.
New Girl sees her play Jess, a dorky twentysomething who - after catching her boyfriend with another woman - answers a flatshare ad and moves into an apartment with three single men.
Whatever you write, don't ever throw your writings away, even if re-reading them makes you judge your old self as dorky or uncool.
Alas, when I issued your goose flag hats to my friends, Dan, Otto and Kent, I got comments like "Yeah, you'd just love to get me in some magazine wearing that dorky thing" or "I'll wear it only if I can keep the face mask on when you take pictures."
For the ninth round (Falaj Satal) Race for the pure Arabian horses for 2000m the horse (Dorky Lotus) owned by said bin Suhail al-Makhini came first.
Jessie has lots to deal with: the recent sudden death of her popular and sporty older brother James, her parents' grief, her exclusion from the 'gang' of girls who used to be her best friends, her failure to make the school's dance team, and now the dorky new boy Alan who's always hanging around and has become the latest victim of the school's bullies.
In this visual effects-laden comedy from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright, we meet dorky yet charming Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera).
if she can stop being so dorky. Fortunately, Kara's gloomy roommate is very supportive--but who is that bald super-villain she keeps sending e-mails to?
"Syfy has been trying to escape from the idea that they're dorky or out of touch, or any of the things that sci-fi fans are afraid the world thinks about them," says Annalee Newitz of science-fiction blog Io9.com.