anorak

• Borrowed from Greenlandic annoraaq.
• (person with obsessive interest): Originally referring to train spotters (because they would wear anoraks while looking out for trains).

• IPA^(key): /ˈænəɹæk/

• Audio (General Australian):

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anorak (plural anoraks)

1. A heavy weatherproof jacket with an attached hood; a parka or windcheater.
   • 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61:

     Don't ever use the hood on your anorak; and, if you do, for heaven's sake don't pull the string tight so that you peep out like a little baby in a siren suit.

3. (UK, slang) A person with an unusual or obsessive interest in a niche subject, especially trains.

   Hyponyms: geek, nerd, otaku

   • 2007 February 15, Maev Kennedy, “I used to say he was England's answer to John Cusack. Now I think he's England's answer to Jack Lemmon”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     He has described himself as the uber-geek, an anorak's anorak, a standard bearer for fellow Star Trekkies everywhere, and his air of bland, amiable bafflement has served him remarkably well in a string of TV and film roles.

• → Greek: άνορακ (ánorak)

• rivet counter
• trainspotter

• anorak at The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary
• The Guardian: What do the British mean when they call somebody an "anorak"?

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Borrowed from Greenlandic annoraaq.

anorak c (singular definite anorakken, plural indefinite anorakker)

1. anorak

Ultimately from Greenlandic annoraaq.

• IPA^(key): /a.nɔ.ʁak/

• Audio:

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anorak m (plural anoraks)

1. anorak (heavy weatherproof jacket)

• → Romanian: hanorac
• → Spanish: anorak

• “anorak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English anorak, from Greenlandic annoraaq.

• IPA^(key): /aˈnɔ.rak/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔrak
• Syllabification: a‧no‧rak

anorak m inan

1. anorak (heavy weatherproof jacket)

• anorak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• anorak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• anorac

Ultimately from Greenlandic annoraaq.

anorak m (plural anoraks)

1. anorak (heavy weatherproof jacket)

• “anorak”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From French anorak, from Greenlandic annoraaq.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.no.ɾɑk/

anorak (definite accusative anorağı, plural anoraklar)

1. anorak