There are many distinctive words in the English language that are used to describe people with different images. Mastering these vivid and interesting words will not only make your English more grounded, but also help to understand British and American culture. Let's take a look!
1.nerd nerd
nerd is a common saying used by American students, which means similar to "nerd" in Chinese. This type of person has a high IQ, low emotional intelligence, lacks social skills, and is obsessed with delving into science or books. They are often the object of ridicule and jealousy from their classmates.
Bill Gates famously said:
►be nice to nerds. chances are you'll end up working for one.
Be nice to a nerd, and there's a good chance you'll work for a nerd in the future.
2.Jock Sports Pretty Boy
Jock is also a common word on campus, and this type of person is the opposite of nerd.
They are handsome, sociable, popular with girls, especially good at various sports such as american football and ticketball, but are often despised for these characteristics.
►jocks are dumbass athletes who get all the chicks in high school. they end up bagging our groceries, and cleaning public toilets after high school.
Jocks are a bunch of idiots with well-developed limbs, who messed with all the girls in middle school, and after graduating from high school, they packed bags or cleaned the toilet for us at the grocery store.
3. Egghead pedantic nerd
Egghead is also nerdy, referring to highly educated, self-righteous pedantic intellectuals.
The term was first used in the 1952 U.S. presidential election.
The two sides of the campaign were World War II Allied Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower and the bookish Illinois Governor Stevenson.
Stevenson's elaborate campaign speeches were gorgeous and obscure in writing that only intellectuals like him would be interested in. So the opponent teased him and said:
►sure, all the eggheads love stevenson. but how many eggheads do you think there are.
Obviously, all pedantic nerds love Stevenson, but how many pedantic nerds do you think there can be in this world?
4.Hick and City Slicker dirt bun vs old fritters
The meaning of these two words must be found in various languages, and they are derogatory terms for each other by urban and rural people.
Hick means "countryman, dirt bun", and slick literally means "sleek, oily", so city slicker is also the eyes of the countrymen as "the old oil in the city, dressed up, old but not credible in the city slippery head".
5. Turkey stupid
Turkey is a food that Americans eat on both tanksgiving day and christmas day.
However, the live turkey is ugly and clumsy, so turkey is used to describe the kind of stupid and useless person.
The kind of government or business agency that employs these tokens and cannot fire them is called a turkey farm.
6. Shrimp dwarf
Shrimp is often used to refer to people who are short or insignificant. Consider the following sentence:
►you may call napoleon a little shrimp. but for a shrimp, he certainly made the rest of europe tremble.
You might say napoleon was a dwarf, but for a short man he made the whole of Europe tremble.
7. Crab has a violent temper
Crab (crab) because of its ugly and fierce appearance, is often used to refer to those who have a short personality and a bad temper.
8. Couch potato is a person who is lazy on the couch all day
Couch potato refers to a person who sits on the couch and watches TV as soon as he has time, silently and motionlessly, like a round potato. Example:
►please don't lie around like a couch potato. get up and do something productive.
Please don't be lazy like a couch potato all day, get up and do something meaningful.
9.Mall rat in the mall
Mall rats are certainly not real mice in shopping malls, but people who like to go to malls (big malls) when they have nothing to do.
They are usually a bunch of young people who wander around without buying anything, often giving the impression of unemployed vagrants.
►i went to the mall to get new shoes on friday and i saw the same mall rats pass by me at least ten times!
I went to the mall on Friday to buy shoes, and then the same bunch of little hanging around in the mall passed me at least 10 times!
10.Green thumb gardener
Green thumb refers to people who are good at gardening, these people can always clean up the garden green and pleasant, and the flowers and plants raised are bright and healthy.
►jillian has quite a green thumb; look at her rose bed!
Gillian especially takes care of the flowers and plants, and you can see the rose garden she planted!
11.All thumbs are clumsy
What would it be like to say a person is all thumbs? Think about it, thumbs are good, but if ten fingers grow into short and thick thumbs, it will be very uncomfortable to work. Hence all
Thumbs is a description of a person who is clumsy.
►mary is all thumbs when it comes to gardening.
Mary was completely overwhelmed when it came to gardening.
12.Penny-pincher and chipskate stingy
Both of these colloquial terms refer to people who spend money carefully and miserly.
Penny is a cent, pinch means "pinch", as the name suggests, penny-pincher is those who have to squeeze even a penny tightly in their hands and are reluctant to spend it. Example:
►don't be such a penny-pincher, donate some of your money to charity.
Don't be so stingy, donate a little money for charity.
Cheapskate is all about saving money, the more provincial the better, please take you to mcdonald at most. They value money more than friendship, and in that sense cheapskate is more annoying than penny-pincher. Example:
►william is one hell of a cheapskate. all my gifts from him come from the dollar store.
William was a dime-deaf miser. All the gifts he gave me were from the dollar store.
13.Spring chicken young people
Spring chicken doesn't mean chicks hatching in the spring, it means "young, inexperienced people." Example:
►i'm over thirty. i'm not a spring chicken any more.
I'm in my 30s, but I'm not a little hairy kid anymore.
14. Lame Duck lost the official
Lame duck, the lame duck, refers to "an outgoing official who has lost his re-election campaign" and is also used to refer to "undesirable people" (those who are not in use).
Any U.S. official — from mayor to governor to senator to president — is likely to be called a lame duck for incompetence.
►the governor of our state ended up as a lame duck when he lost the election. he still has six weeks left in office but there's nothing to do except to pack up his papers.
Our gubernatorial campaign failed and became a lame duck. He has 6 weeks to go before leaving office, but has nothing to do, and at most he can pack up his own documents.
15. Wallflower Wallflower
Wallflowers, that is, shy, unsociable people, mostly refer to girls.
►i met this gorgeous girl, a bit of a wallflower, but very sweet.
I've seen this beautiful woman, and although a little shy, she's nice to be a person.
16. Weirdo Weirdo
If you say that someone is a weirdo, then you must very much disagree with the person's behavior habits and think that he is an eccentric person who is difficult to understand and accept.
►what did he mean by that? weirdo!
What does he mean by that? Weird!
17. Drama queen loves to act
People who make a big fuss and react fiercely and exaggeratedly like to deal with exaggerated performances that are too dramatic no matter what.
►god, he's such a drama queen! i've never seen such a fuss.
Oh my God, he can do it! I've never seen such a fuss.
18.Clam the taciturn man
Clam is a clam, which in American colloquialism refers to the taciturn, tight-lipped person. Another seafood word, oyster, can also refer to "the taciturn man."
►suddenly, she became a clam and wouldn’t talk anymore.
She was suddenly silent and didn't say a word.
19.goody-goody good old man
A bunch of kind hypocrites, hypocrites, falsely orthodox people; people who pretend to be religious
►he's a bit of a goody-goody.
He's a good old man.
20. Party animal Social animals
That is, people who are keen to attend social gatherings.
►that kid is such a party animal. he takes every opportunity he gets to go to a party.
The kid was keen on parties— he would take every opportunity he could to get to a party.