pencil-necked

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pencil-necked (comparative more pencil-necked, superlative most pencil-necked)

1. Having a very thin neck.
2. (idiomatic, US, derogatory) Insubstantial; weak.

   That pencil-necked geek isn't going to stop me.

   • 1997 July 7, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, in Forbes, →ISSN, page 348:

     Science fiction is more than inelegant prose for pencil-necked teenagers.

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