Geeks are people or animals?

Many words that are now negative and even offensive, were previously used in the speech in quite different senses. For example, many believe that geeks are always people with negative character traits. Is it so? It is worth looking into the etymological dictionary to give the right answer.

Geeks are bastards

This value, which is given in the subheading, does not shed any light on understanding the meaning of the word. Because "bastard" is also a word that has a negative connotation with respect to the individual. But the meaning itself remains behind the scenes.

Who are these "bastards" and "geeks"? Is it people or animals?

Bastards, geeks and hybrids

As we are told by etymological dictionaries that introduce people into the history of the appearance of words, bastards and geeks - this is the offspring of purebred animals, which they "pribludili." As a result, cubs with signs appeared that did not correspond to this breed or even to the given species of animals.

For example, from the crossing of the donkey and the stallion a hound appears, and from the connection of the mare and the donkey there is a mule. And these animals are not capable of reproduction, which leads to their degeneration. Apparently, therefore, there was another word that all wolfhounds, zebra and zebrulus, lisops, buffalo, ligers and tigers, cuffs and cossacodelphins - geek - began to be called. The definition of this term is embedded in its composition: the prefix "you" means in this case "output", "end", and the root itself indicates itself. So it turns out that the geek is the one who "closes his family".

There is even such an interesting fact. For example, cubs of a sheep and a goat or a goat and a sheep and even in nature are born dead. Although scientists have managed with great difficulty with the artificial cultivation of a goat embryo, fertilized also without the intervention of nature by the sperm of a ram, to grow a living animal. Whether in mockery, or seriously, but called its creators a chimera.

Today, scientists have refused to use these words. In place of the archaisms came a new definition, which calls the cubs of animals that have come from mixing rocks and species. Now they are called hybrids.

Geeks and bastards among people in an archaic sense

Gradually, these words were transferred to a person. Just as an unclean animal was called a bastard or a geek, these definitions were used to brand the illegitimate child of a nobleman. The synonym of "geek" was the word "bastard".

Often representatives of the nobility refused to recognize their child, who was born out of wedlock. At best, he was identified in a family, where a certain amount of money was paid. In the worst - they did leave them in orphanages.

But some noble gentlemen, mostly men, sometimes still took part in the fate of their bastards. They even gave them their surname, however, in a truncated form. For example, if the father was Vasiliev, then the illegitimate son could become Silev, and Kirpichnikov could have a son with the surname Pichnikov.

"Geeks" and "freaks" are synonymous

And nature sometimes fails. Even in cases when both parents are purebred, among the offspring there is no-no, and suddenly there will be a cub who shows weak signs of the breed. And sometimes they are completely absent.

And it happens that for an unknown reason suddenly there will be an ugly creature with curved limbs, a deformed skull or with the absence of some organs or members. Hardly anyone will grow such a creature, spending on it strength, food and time. So it turns out that a freak is a geek who will not be allowed to continue his family.

And among people it happened that such geeks appeared. "Who are they?" - the ignorant person will be surprised. "And where did they go?" Are they also deprived of life at birth? "

No, people with deviations of life were not deprived. They grew up, and even, happened and such, had their own children. We received amazing documents, telling about people with four legs, with two heads (later it was explained by the fusion of two twins with bodies), by two persons. So the expression "two-faced Janus" did not appear at all from scratch.

Modern understanding of the word "geek"

Today this word has completely lost its biological significance. But it has acquired a new meaning. The modern correct meaning of the word "geek" indicates the distinctive features of the individual in his character, upbringing. At first, they called the one who had distinguished himself with his physical, external, behavioral, and spiritual qualities among members of his family, community, and the other society to which he belonged. In this variant, the expression "white crow" would be a synonym for this word.

But then a "geek" was called a person with pronounced negative character traits that contradict humaneness and humanism in a broad sense. Bastards, geeks and nonhumans are now called maniacs and murderers, who are alien to such concepts as pity and compassion. These same words brand Hitler to this day, unleashing one of the most terrible wars on the planet.