Right, "geek" should go back to the original definition: a person who bites the head off of a chicken in a carnival show.
And he is a foole, a sotte, and a geke also,
Which choseth a place vnto the same to go,
And where diuers wayes lead thither directly
He choseth the worst and most of ieopardie
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