Many words that are now negative and even offensive in nature were previously used in speech in completely different senses. For example, many believe that geeks have always been people with negative character traits. Is it so? It is worth looking into the etymological dictionary to give the correct answer.
Geeks are bastards
This meaning, which is given in the sub title, does not at all shed light on understanding the meaning of the word. Because “bastard” is also a word that carries a negative connotation in relation to an individual. But the meaning itself remains behind the scenes.
Who are the "bastards" and "geeks"? Are these people or animals at all?
Bastards, Geeks & Hybrids
As we are told by etymological dictionaries that introduce people to the history of the appearance of words, bastards and geeks are the offspring of purebred animals that they "strayed". As a result, cubs appeared with signs that did not at all correspond to this breed or even this type of animal.
For example, from the crossing of a donkey and a stallion, a hinny appears, and from the connection of a mare and a donkey, a mule. And these animalsare not capable of reproduction, which leads to their degeneration. Apparently, that's why another word appeared, which they began to call all wolves, zebras and zebrules, lysops, coywolves, ligers and tigers, cuffs and killer whales - a geek. The definition of this term is embedded in its composition: the prefix “you” in this case means “exit”, “end”, and the root itself indicates itself. So it turns out that a geek is one who “closes his family.”
There is even such an interesting fact. For example, the cubs of a sheep and a goat or a goat and a ram are born dead in nature. Although scientists succeeded with great difficulty with the help of artificial cultivation of a goat embryo, fertilized also without the intervention of nature with the sperm of a ram, to grow a living animal. Whether in mockery, or seriously, but the creators called it a chimera.
Today, scientists have abandoned the use of these words. In place of archaisms, a new definition has come, which names the cubs of animals descended from a mixture of breeds and species. Now they are called hybrids.
Degenerates and bastards among people in an archaic sense
Gradually, these words were transferred to the person. Just as an unclean animal was called a bastard or a degenerate, these definitions began to stigmatize the illegitimate child of a nobleman. A synonym for "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 assigned to a family, where a certain amount was paid for maintenance. At worst, they left them at homefor orphans.
But some noble gentlemen, mostly men, sometimes still took part in the fate of their bastards. They even gave them their last name, however, in a truncated form. For example, if the father was Vasiliev, then the illegitimate son could become Siliev, and Kirpichnikov could have a son with the surname Pichnikov.
"Geeks" and "freaks" are synonymous
And nature sometimes fails. Even in cases where both parents are purebred, among the offspring there is no, no, and suddenly a cub will appear in which weak signs of the breed are revealed. And sometimes they are completely absent.
And it also happens that for some unknown reason, an ugly creature with twisted limbs, a deformed skull or with the absence of some organs or members suddenly appears. It is unlikely that someone will grow such a creature, spending energy, food and time on it. So it turns out that a freak is a degenerate who will not be allowed to continue his lineage.
And among people it happened that such geeks appeared. “Who are they? - an ignorant person will be surprised. - And where did they go? Were they also deprived of their lives at birth?”
No, people with disabilities were not deprived of their lives. They grew up and even had children of their own. Amazing documents have come down to us that tell about people with four legs, two heads (later this was explained by the fusion of two twin bodies), two faces. So the expression "two-faced Janus" arose not at all onempty space.
Modern understanding of the word "geek"
Today this word has completely lost its biological meaning. 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, this was the name of the one who, with his physical, external, behavioral, spiritual qualities, stood out among the members of his family, community, another society to which he belonged. In this version, the expression "white crow" would be a synonym for this word.
But then a “geek” began to be called a person with pronounced negative character traits that contradict humanity and humanism in the broadest sense. Bastards, geeks and non-humans are now called maniacs and murderers who are alien to such concepts as pity and compassion. Hitler, who unleashed one of the most terrible wars on the planet, is branded to this day with the same words.
