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# anorak

«anorak» in Mova's school dictionary: **A waterproof jacket with a hood, often padded** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an anorak, anoraks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A waterproof jacket with a hood, often padded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/#m1)

2) (UK, informal) A person who is very interested in a hobby that others think is boring, like train numbers; a nerd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday clothing in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: wear your anorak in the rain. Slang: "he's a bit of an anorak about buses". Phrases: put on your anorak, a bit of an anorak.

### examples

- Put on your anorak; it's raining. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/#x1)
- My anorak has a hood that folds away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/#x2)
- He's a real anorak about trains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/#x3)
- She left her anorak on the school bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/#x4)
- We wore anoraks on the windy hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/#x5)
- Don't be such an anorak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/#x6)

### note

The word comes from the Inuit language (Greenlandic). US often says "parka" or "windbreaker". The slang meaning is mildly teasing, not very rude.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anorak» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anorak/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.