Crossword clues for anorak
anorak
- Winter outerwear
- Polar cover
- Winter jacket
- Cold-weather coat
- Cold-weather wear
- Arctic attire
- Cold-weather jacket
- Arctic pullover
- Warm jacket
- Polar parka
- Arctic outerwear
- Weatherproof jacket
- Weatherproof coat
- Polar wear
- Polar explorer's jacket
- Inuit wear
- Heavy hooded jacket
- Greenland jacket
- Fur-lined jacket
- Burberry buy
- Arctic garment
- Waterproof wear
- Socially inept person, in British slang
- Pullover jacket
- Pole attire
- Polar explorer's wear
- Polar coat
- Parka cousin
- North Face purchase
- Nanook's outerwear
- Jacket similar to a parka
- Jacket for frigid weather
- Inuit parka
- Hooded waterproof jacket
- Hooded ski jacket
- Hooded Arctic jacket
- Heavy winter wear
- Garment (worn by boring obsessive?)
- Extra-warm coat
- Eskimo outerwear
- Cold-weather garment
- Cold-climate coat
- Cold weather cover-up
- Coat for extreme cold
- Coat — trivia expert?
- Boringly obsessive person
- Bit of Inuit gear
- Hooded jacket worn in the Arctic
- Arctic coat
- Ski jacket
- Arctic jacket
- Inuit outerwear
- Arctic cover-up
- Cold weather attire
- Yupik outerwear
- Eskimo garb
- Polar jacket
- Parka's relative
- Inuit garment
- Arctic wear
- Winter wear
- Preventer of northern exposure
- Snow-covered cover-up
- Inuit jacket
- Garment originally made from caribou or sealskin
- Garment made of Gore-Tex, maybe
- Skimobiler's wear
- A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)
- Arctic garb
- Yukon garb
- Parka's kin
- Alaskan's jacket
- Eskimo jacket
- Warm hooded jacket
- Arctic parka
- Gradual reduction in amount coming from volcano? Extra work towards the end for nerd
- Girl in middle of lake in raincoat
- Article with piece about female trainspotter
- Expert on trivia
- One with obsessive interest in the origin of Arabia translated Koran
- One bloody woman initially kissed trainspotter
- Weather-resistant fabric
- Waterproof jacket
- Waterproof coat
- Some Atlantean or Kässbohrer would certainly interest him!
- Nerdy expert right about an English symbol? On the contrary
- Nerd starts to acquire new obsession: rare African knives
- Bore outdoor gear
- Artist breaking an agreement is an obsessive type
- Type of jacket
- Trainspotter has an agreement about first couple of railways
- Trainspotter's article artist displayed in fair
- Winter coat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Eskimo's waterproof, hooded jacket, 1924, from Greenland Eskimo anoraq. Applied to Western imitations of this garment from 1930s. In British slang, "socially inept person" (Partridge associates it with a fondness for left-wing politics and pirate radio) by 1983, on the notion that that sort of person typically wears this sort of coat.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A heavy weatherproof jacket with an attached hood; a parka or windcheater. 2 (context British slang English) A geek or nerd, possibly originally either a train spotter or a fan of off-shore pirate radio.
WordNet
n. a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term) [syn: parka, windbreaker, windcheater]
Wikipedia
In British slang an anorak is a person who has a very strong interest, perhaps obsessive, in niche subjects. This interest may be unacknowledged or not understood by the general public. The term is sometimes used synonymously with geek or nerd, or the Japanese term otaku, albeit referring to different niches.
Anorak is the second album by the band Ruth. They completed recording this album in May 2008 and is their most successful album to date. It was released on October 28, 2008 through Tooth & Nail Records. The lead single "Back to the Five" has become a minor hit in Christian radio. There is a music video for the song as well. The video placed on the X 2009 DVD Christian rock hits compilation.
An anorak is a type of coat with a hood. Anorak may also refer to:
- Anorak (album), a 2008 album by Ruth
- Anorak (slang), British slang for a person who has a very strong interest in niche subjects
- Anorak in the UK, a 2008 live album by Marillion
- The Anorak, a play about the École Polytechnique massacre
Usage examples of "anorak".
At the end of the street, I see that anorak disappear into a grey Volvo, Bhangra blaring from inside.
Faraday slipped the mobile back in the pocket of his anorak, then began to search half-heartedly for the wheatear again.
On the walls, prints of Victorian etchings of life on the island, the natives all done up in Lapp clothes -- huge fur-lined anoraks with fancy stitching -- harpoons in hand, sledges, dogs, whale hunting, church, life.
Two little Nentsi, looking like penguins in their fur garments with blind sleeves, were playing on the beach and I was chatting with their parents-a little girl of a mother and a father of similar stature with a brown head sticking out of his anorak.
We then went to work to make clothes after the pattern of the Netchelli Eskimo, and the sewing went on early and late -- thick anoraks and thin ones, heavy breeches and light, winter stockings and summer stockings.
David Morse looked me over as an exhibit, up and down, gaze wandering over the unzipped anorak and the blue shirt and tie beneath.
Holly and lent into the car we had come in, picking up my anorak off the floor.
Pollgate looked moodily at the anorak which Bobby had laid on a chair and Lord Vaughnley glanced at the gun, and at my face, and away again.
Besides the breeches and anorak of light wind-cloth, he made stockings of the same material.
He took the anorak Aap was holding out to him, gave a satisfied grunt when he saw that Aap was putting on a similar garment, and made for the garden.
The doctor was standing, his face like a thundercloud, tearing off his anorak and then stooping to pick up a rope.
It was a cold day, the sky grey and strangely quiet--a little frightening, she had to admit to herself as she changed into slacks and a thick sweater and crammed her anorak on top.
Harriet peeled off her soaking anorak, bade the dog sit down and not stir and started to unpack the bags with a practised hand.
She saw a dark-haired man in his mid-thirties, wearing an anorak and brown cord trousers.
It was well past two when David reappeared, his anorak slick with rain, his hair tucked beneath the hood.