A person who manages to give the
impression of being a
genuine geek, but, when pressed, can't back it up with the actual
technical knowledge. If
geekdom is reserved for those who both have the requisite
obsessive nature and have used it to amass a
world of
details which are unexpectedly
relevant, then semi-
geekdom is for those of
us whose
obsessive nature never quite manages to
come in handy.
Kind of like a Swiss Army knife with only the thing for taking stones out of horses' hooves, but not the blades, or the cool mini-saw. At best, the semi-geek can stretch to being the toothpick :-)