Poindexter
/ˈpɔɪndɛkstə
/noun US informal
A boringly studious and socially inept person.What, these Poindexters are left to wonder, ever happened to tradition?
Origin
1950s: the name of a character in the animated television series Felix the Cat, noted for his intelligence and his use of scientific jargon.
- read someone the Riot Act
- read something into
- read the runes
- read-through
- read up on something (or read something up)
- readvance
- readvancement
- re-advertise
- re-advertisement
- readvise
- read-write
- ready
- -ready
- ready cash
- ready-made
- ready-making
- ready meal
- ready-mix
- ready-mixed
- ready money
- ready-moneyed
- ready reckoner
- ready roll
- ready room
- ready-sensitized