What was your word for geeky/uncool growing up?

[DuggeesWoggle]

Was just about to add to the 'describe your childhood in 3 words' and realised one of the words I would have put probably wouldn't be recognised by lots of people.

Ladgin - no idea of proper spelling. Meant uncool/geeky/embarrassing. I was extremely ladgin growing up - holidays spent going to castles in Wales or on steam trains (thanks Dad) instead of all inclusive in Benidorm like everyone else at school. Happy days .

We were in North Yorkshire, 1980s/90s. What word did you have for this, whereabouts and when? Just wondering how far the ladgin-ness spread?!

I'm 38 and wish there were more opportunities to say ladgin in my day to day life.

Nerd
Sad

Or sad act

Just thought of another - Trog - short for troglodyte. Although this is less for geekiness, just more for general boring-ness.

I was called a swot. A lot. :(

I think maybe sad was around.

North Scotland, late 80s into 90s.

Groovy

Dweeb was our word. I'm 1976 vintage from the East Midlands. It actually took a fair amount of dragging the word from my memory!

Boffin
'Molly' meant geeky and unfashionable
'Sad' was used a lot

The boffins hit back by calling the popular people 'trevs'; meaning chav/townie

This was in Brighton in the 90s

I used to call popular people 'sportsbags'.