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 traits. Is it so? It is worth looking into the etymological dictionary to give the right answer.
Geeks are bastards
This meaning, which is given in the subtitle, does not shed any light on understanding the meaning of the word. Because “bastard” is a word that has a negative connotation in relation to an individual. But the very meaning remains behind the scenes.
Who are the "bastards" and "geeks"? Are these people or animals at all?
Bastards, Geeks, and Hybrids
As we are told by the etymological dictionaries that introduce people to the history of the appearance of words, bastards and geeks are the offspring of purebred animals, which they "stray". As a result, cubs appeared with signs that did not correspond at all to this breed or even this type of animal.
For example, a mule appears from the crossing of a donkey and a stallion, and a mule appears from the connection of a mare and a donkey. Moreover, these animals are not capable of reproduction, which leads to their degeneration. Apparently, that’s why another word appeared that called all the wolves, zebras and zebrules, foxes, coyolco, ligers and tiger cubs, cuffs and killer whales - geek. The definition of this term lies in its composition: the prefix "you" in this case means "exit", "end", and the root itself indicates itself. So it turns out that the geek is the one who “closes his clan”.
There is even such an interesting fact. For example, the cubs of a sheep and a goat or a goat and a ram appear completely dead in nature. Although scientists and with great difficulty, using artificial cultivation of a goat embryo, fertilized also without the intervention of nature by ram sperm, raised a living animal. Either in mockery, or seriously, but its creators called it a chimera.
Today, scientists have refused to use these words. In place of archaisms came a new definition, which calls the cubs of animals descended from a mixture of breeds and species. Now they are called hybrids.
Geeks and bastards among people in the archaic sense
Gradually, these words were transferred to a person. Just as an unclean animal was called a bastard or a geek, these definitions began to brand the illegitimate child of a nobleman. The synonym for "geek" was the word "bastard."
Often, representatives of the nobility refused to recognize their child who was born out of wedlock. In the best case, he was assigned to any family where a certain amount of maintenance was paid. At worst, they left 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 Siliev, and Kirpichnikov could have a son with the surname Pichnikov.
"Geeks" and "freaks" are synonyms
And nature sometimes fails. Even in cases where both parents are purebred, there is no, no among the offspring, and a cub will suddenly appear, in which weak signs of the breed are revealed. And sometimes they are completely absent.
And it happens that, for some unknown reason, an ugly creature with curved limbs, a deformed skull, or the absence of some organs or members is suddenly born. It is unlikely that someone 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 clan.
And among people it happened that such degenerates appeared. “Who are they? - the ignorant person will be surprised. “And where did they go?” Have they also been taken away at birth? ”
No, people with disabilities have not been deprived of life. They grew up and even, it happened, had their own children. Surprising documents came to us that told about people with four legs, with two heads (later this was explained by the fusion of two twins with bodies), two faces. So the expression "two-faced Janus" did not arise from scratch.
