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noun
1.
a hooded pullover jacket originally made of fur and worn in the arctic, now made of any weather-resistant fabric.
2.
a jacket patterned after this, made of any weather-resistant material and worn widely.
Origin:
1920–25; < Inuit (Greenlandic) annoraaq
1920–25; < Inuit (Greenlandic) annoraaq
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Anorak
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
anorak
Eskimo's waterproof, hooded jacket, 1924, from Greenland Eskimo anoraq. Applied to Western immitations of this garment from 1930s. In British slang, "socially inept person" (Partridge associates it with a fondness for left-wing politics and pirate radio) by 1983, on the notion that that sort of person
EXPANDtypically wears this sort of coat.
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