pencil-neckadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈpɛnslnɛk/, U.S.

/ˈpɛnsəlˌnɛk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pencil n., neck n.¹

Etymology: < pencil n. + neck n.¹

Originally U.S.

A. adj. (attributive).

1. That has a long, thin neck.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [adjective] > types of neck > having

neckeda1398

bull necked?a1400

well-necked?1548

thick-necked1591

lean-necked1608

swan-necked1703

crane-necked1822

pencil-neck1868

no-neck1955

pencil-necked1956

1868 Prairie Farmer 15 Nov. 159/1 (advt.) G.B. & H.B. Alverson, Breeders and Dealers in Berkshire Pigs, Golden Feather Turkeys, White English Aylesbury Ducks, White and Pencil Neck Brahma Fowls.

1873 J. S. Bowler Let. 6 July in F. Curtiss-Wedge Hist. Renville Co. (1916) II. xli. 1295/2 For stock I have a cow, a Dorking hen, a Buff Cochin and a Pencil-neck Brahma cock.

2. slang (usually depreciative). Thin, scrawny; weak, effete; (also) excessively studious.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin

leanc1000

thinc1000

swonga1300

meagrea1398

empty?c1400

(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405

macilent?a1425

rawc1425

gauntc1440

to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450

leany?a1475

swampc1480

scarrya1500

pinched1514

extenuate1528

lean-fleshed1535

carrion-lean1542

spare1548

lank1553

carrion1565

brawn-fallen1578

raw-bone1590

scraggeda1591

thin-bellied1591

rake-lean1593

bare-boned1594

forlorn1594

Lented1594

lean-looked1597

shotten herring1598

spiny1598

starved1598

thin-belly1598

raw-boned1600

larbar1603

meagry?1603

fleshless1605

scraggy1611

ballow1612

lank-leana1616

skinnya1616

hagged1616

scraggling1616

carrion-like1620

extenuated1620

thin-gutted1620

haggard1630

scrannel1638

leanisha1645

skeletontal1651

overlean1657

emaciated1665

slank1668

lathy1672

emaciate1676

nithered1691

emacerated1704

lean-looking1713

scranky1735

squinny-gut(s)1742

mauger1756

squinny1784

angular1789

etiolated1791

as thin (also lean) as a rail1795

wiry1808

slink1817

scranny1820

famine-hollowed1822

sharp featured1824

reedy1830

scrawny1833

stringy1833

lean-ribbeda1845

skeletony1852

famine-pinched1856

shelly1866

flesh-fallen1876

thinnish1884

all horn and hide1890

unfurnished1893

bone-thin1899

underweight1899

asthenic1925

skin-and-bony1935

skinny-malinky1940

skeletal1952

pencil-neck1960

1960 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 4 Jan. 8/2 Not one word was mentioned by the Pencil Neck Figure Heads about inflation.

1971 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 May 1/1 The fans hooted and hissed when he derided his opponent—‘Pencil-Neck Geek! Ya got a neck like a stack of dimes!’—and cheered when he took his lumps.

1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. iii. 3/1 Let's face it, we're a nation of pencil-neck wimps.

1998 J. Cahill Meadowlands (HBO TV shooting script) 43 in Sopranos 1st Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) You pencil-neck fuck, I could pop your head like a blister.

B. n.

1. A long thin neck.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [noun] > types of neck

skull-neck1615

swan-neck1837

pencil-neck1886

1886 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 23 Dec. Well, about that dude. He was developing his form. And it needed it...His poor little lead pencil neck looked as if a sudden whiff of air would snap it in two.

1958 A. Dewlen Bone Pickers 117 Spain's pencil neck may have colored, but the pale eyes did not alter.

1968 P. K. Dick Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep? 79 I'll have to break your pencil neck.

1976 Washington Post 15 Mar. c9/1 Pinky's poor pencil neck isn't likely to develop added musculature.

2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 16 June I have a pencil neck but my shoulders are as wide as any man's.

2. slang (usually depreciative). An excessively studious or effete person; a person with a poor physique (as exemplified by a thin or scrawny neck); a weakling. Hence as a general term of abuse.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person

dwininga1400

molla1425

impotenta1513

gristlea1556

weakling1576

puler1579

puling1579

shadow1588

shotten herring1598

doddle1681

sickrel1699

seven-months1724

wandought1726

wallydraigle1736

wreck1795

werewolf1808

windlestraw1818

weed1825

shammock1828

sickling1834

forcible feeble1844

dwindle1847

weedling1849

crock1876

feebling1887

asthenic1893

dodderer1907

pencil-neck1956

burnt-out case1959

weakie1959

1956 Post-Register (Idaho Falls, Idaho) 25 Apr. 13/1 Shires has gained local notoriety for his acrid comments about the ‘Western pencilnecks’ and he has even gone to the expense of having special autographed pencils made up depicting a pencil necked person.

1961 Amarillo (Texas) Globe-Times 16 Feb. 22/1 Can you imagine old so-and-so calling me ‘pencil neck’.

1987 C. Hiaasen Double Whammy (1989) 244 Okay, pencil-neck, let's hear the bad news.

1990 N. Baker Room Temperature ix. 73 They wouldn't even know what a pencil neck was until I ramped up and began a course of concentrated reading more fanatically comprehensive even than De Quincey's eighteen-hour-a-day burst at Oxford.

1991 Musclemag Mar. 109/1 Society has jobs for strong-men, just as it has jobs for pencil-necks.

2001 P. Tsatsouline Russian Kettlebell Challenge i. 3 Poddubny made himself a 16kg cane—so he could amuse himself watching pencilnecks at coat checks drop it on their toes.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pencil-neck
释义	pencil-neckadj.n. Brit. /ˈpɛnslnɛk/, U.S. /ˈpɛnsəlˌnɛk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pencil n., neck n.¹ Etymology: < pencil n. + neck n.¹ Originally U.S. A. adj. (attributive). 1. That has a long, thin neck. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [adjective] > types of neck > having neckeda1398 bull necked?a1400 well-necked?1548 thick-necked1591 lean-necked1608 swan-necked1703 crane-necked1822 pencil-neck1868 no-neck1955 pencil-necked1956 1868 Prairie Farmer 15 Nov. 159/1 (advt.) G.B. & H.B. Alverson, Breeders and Dealers in Berkshire Pigs, Golden Feather Turkeys, White English Aylesbury Ducks, White and Pencil Neck Brahma Fowls. 1873 J. S. Bowler Let. 6 July in F. Curtiss-Wedge Hist. Renville Co. (1916) II. xli. 1295/2 For stock I have a cow, a Dorking hen, a Buff Cochin and a Pencil-neck Brahma cock. 2. slang (usually depreciative). Thin, scrawny; weak, effete; (also) excessively studious. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 1960 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 4 Jan. 8/2 Not one word was mentioned by the Pencil Neck Figure Heads about inflation. 1971 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 May 1/1 The fans hooted and hissed when he derided his opponent—‘Pencil-Neck Geek! Ya got a neck like a stack of dimes!’—and cheered when he took his lumps. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. iii. 3/1 Let's face it, we're a nation of pencil-neck wimps. 1998 J. Cahill Meadowlands (HBO TV shooting script) 43 in Sopranos 1st Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) You pencil-neck fuck, I could pop your head like a blister. B. n. 1. A long thin neck. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [noun] > types of neck skull-neck1615 swan-neck1837 pencil-neck1886 1886 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 23 Dec. Well, about that dude. He was developing his form. And it needed it...His poor little lead pencil neck looked as if a sudden whiff of air would snap it in two. 1958 A. Dewlen Bone Pickers 117 Spain's pencil neck may have colored, but the pale eyes did not alter. 1968 P. K. Dick Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep? 79 I'll have to break your pencil neck. 1976 Washington Post 15 Mar. c9/1 Pinky's poor pencil neck isn't likely to develop added musculature. 2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 16 June I have a pencil neck but my shoulders are as wide as any man's. 2. slang (usually depreciative). An excessively studious or effete person; a person with a poor physique (as exemplified by a thin or scrawny neck); a weakling. Hence as a general term of abuse. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person dwininga1400 molla1425 impotenta1513 gristlea1556 weakling1576 puler1579 puling1579 shadow1588 shotten herring1598 doddle1681 sickrel1699 seven-months1724 wandought1726 wallydraigle1736 wreck1795 werewolf1808 windlestraw1818 weed1825 shammock1828 sickling1834 forcible feeble1844 dwindle1847 weedling1849 crock1876 feebling1887 asthenic1893 dodderer1907 pencil-neck1956 burnt-out case1959 weakie1959 1956 Post-Register (Idaho Falls, Idaho) 25 Apr. 13/1 Shires has gained local notoriety for his acrid comments about the ‘Western pencilnecks’ and he has even gone to the expense of having special autographed pencils made up depicting a pencil necked person. 1961 Amarillo (Texas) Globe-Times 16 Feb. 22/1 Can you imagine old so-and-so calling me ‘pencil neck’. 1987 C. Hiaasen Double Whammy (1989) 244 Okay, pencil-neck, let's hear the bad news. 1990 N. Baker Room Temperature ix. 73 They wouldn't even know what a pencil neck was until I ramped up and began a course of concentrated reading more fanatically comprehensive even than De Quincey's eighteen-hour-a-day burst at Oxford. 1991 Musclemag Mar. 109/1 Society has jobs for strong-men, just as it has jobs for pencil-necks. 2001 P. Tsatsouline Russian Kettlebell Challenge i. 3 Poddubny made himself a 16kg cane—so he could amuse himself watching pencilnecks at coat checks drop it on their toes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1868
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