nerd
see also: NERD
Pronunciation Noun
NERD
Noun
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see also: NERD
Pronunciation Noun
nerd (plural nerds)
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
- 1953 Advertisement for "Businessman's Lunch", a play by Micheal Quinn ↗, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi
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- 1953 Advertisement for "Businessman's Lunch", a play by Micheal Quinn ↗, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
- Synonyms: geek, otaku
- a computer nerd
- a comic-book nerd
- (slang, always derogatory) An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.
- Synonyms: dag (Australian), doofus, dork, dweeb, geek, goober, loser, propeller head, twerp
- Only a nerd would wear yellow and blue stripes with green pants.
- Nerds seem to have fun with each other, but in a way that causes others to laugh at them.
- Why are you hanging out with that nerd?
- (post-1980s) A member of a subculture revolving around video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media.
- See also Thesaurus:dork
- French: nerd
- German: Sonderling, Nerd, Fachidiot, Tüftler, Bücherwurm, Computerfreak
- Italian: secchione
- Portuguese: nerd (Brazil), CDF (Brazil), totó (Portugal, colloquial)
- Russian: зану́да
- Spanish: ñoño, cerebrito, mateo (Chile), norio (Ecuador), matado (Peru), empollón (Spain), friki (Spain)
NERD
Noun
nerd (uncountable)
- Initialism of nonerosive reflux disease
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