Dork is a term used to describe someone who has unusual interests and is, at times, silly. A dork can also refer to someone who acts on his own motives without caring about his peers' opinions.The term occasionally implies stupidity, though perhaps less often than it once did, and it can paradoxically imply an unadmirable (bookish, academic) intelligence, much like the terms "nerd" and "geek."EtymologyIt is popularly asserted that the term originated as whalers' occupational slang for t