Did you perhaps mean adorable?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. informal adorable in a socially awkward manner
Etymologies
- From adorable + dork (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fox promos try to finesse her beauty with the word "adorkable.”
“Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale are calling their adorkable TV counterparts-and we love this new celeb couple moniker.”
“But even beyond being the textbook definition of "adorkable," his interactions with Maya Rudolph in this film just glow.”
“It's also a love story that would have been fun to watch week after week -- those kids are so damn adorkable.”
“The Party Down alum is supposed to be unlikable — initially, at least — as Julia, a lawyer who becomes a love interest for Nick (Jake Johnson), despite her dislike for the famously adorkable Jess (Zooey Deschanel).”
“Abby Elliot played the adorkable New Girl star, while Deschanel nailed her impression of Mary-Kate Olsen, complete with oversized sunglasses, a giant Starbucks cops and that disturbing stare.”
SNL Pays Tribute to Whitney Houston, Zooey Deschanel Has a Dance Party with Jean Dujardin
“And one thing we all noticed was that DT was adorkable in his younger years but hardly exceptional until he turned into this magic sexy magnet man at 30.”
“No wonder Fox has branded this new girl "adorkable.”
“Filmmaker and Star Wars fan Patrick Boivin made this heartwarming and adorkable short movie about an AT-AT toy that lives its life like the family dog.”
“Worst Break-Taking Moment: After not sleeping with anyone other than her boyfriend Spencer in more than six years, Jess is understandably worried that she won't be adventurous enough in the sack for her new guy, Paul the equally adorkable Justin Long, on New Girl.”
Top Moments: Virgins' Horrifying First Kiss and Mother's Big Twist
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adorkable’.
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22405 more...
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Neo-neologisms
snowmageddon, dramastically, phenomenol, adorkable, samultimeously, ignoranity, reppauled, flubbergasted, cybrarian, Schadenfriday, skeptimistic, mundaneabilia and 14 more...
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New and Unholy Coinage
21st century coinage. Any strange words you`ve seen on TV or heard from irritating young people.
hateration, holleration, chillax, weaksauce, pimpin', hella, meme, blamin, propagandhi, jazzercise, blog, social lubricant and 58 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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Tickles my humerus
I find these to be inherently funny.
cow tipping, bumblebee, homoscedasticity, seattle, wagga wagga, booby, pants, guacamole, poodle, fanny pack, nincompoop, svenborgia and 161 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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neo-neologisms
adorkable, phenomenol, dramastically, snowmageddon, luddosphere, stoplifting, shambolic
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Neologisms
Words coined by me, my friends, or people from whom I feel comfortable stealing intellectual property.
neologophilia, gemerald, pseudophistication, cognoscentocracy, geoflation, awkweird, gawkward, pseudoprofundity, dubblent, moosicles, moosies, turmungous and 196 more...
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BecauseICan's list
verisimilitude, zenzizenzizenzic, nevermore, nostalgia, precipice, omnidextrous, requiem, sesquipedalian, unflinchingly, behavoyeur, adorkable
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King of Gnomes
those gifted with the social eloquence, and the services they provide
grig, bellwether, callipygian, cynosure, gemütlich, dernier cri, toff, vaunt, scuttlebutt, sprezzatura, sprezzatura, sycophant and 64 more...
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My List
Words to know
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Nerd Words
I probably won't use these words in college, but I love new words to describe modern subcultures.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for adorkable.
bilby Seeing as I don't have his contact details, you'll have to tell Paul he's hanging with the wrong crowd. Jan 19, 2013
ry what's up with the flickr content here? A bunch of Second Life cheesecake—and Paul McCartney? Jan 19, 2013
bilby Seeing as I don't have her contact details, it's up to you to tell her she's wrong. Jan 18, 2013
stew Cute in an off-beat way, My mother-in-law insists that this quality is embodied by a corgi. Jan 18, 2013
etmlbristol adorkable
The act of being adorable, yet a dork; used as an adjective
Dork: a stupid, foolish person; sometimes has a bit of a negative connotation
Adorable: anyone or anything that is cute, charming, fun
ATTESTATIONS:
jesidres says: Keith was adorkable. I wanted to pinch cheeks (and take a razor to his mustache)
*Twitter: http://twitter.com/#search?q=adorkable
amandakt says: Thank you for the years filled with beautiful music, adorkable moments and miracles.
*Twitter: http://twitter.com/#search?q=adorkable
Eric Geller says: I, like Mandy, adore the adorkable. Whenever something has both the cuteness factor and the nerd factor, I’m interested.
* Blog: http://theadorkable.net/
Jul 14, 2010
whichbe I thought I 'coined' this (rather obvious) one but it was cited on WordSpy today. Oct 17, 2008
whichbe Adjective. The quality of being both nerdy and overwhelmingly cute. May 23, 2007