Meaning of nerd | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of nonerosive reflux disease.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
2. A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
3. A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.
   derogatory, slang, sometimes
4. brain
5. One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something
6. One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
   derogatory, informal, sometimes
7. A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
8. A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media.
   derogatory, informal, sometimes
9. One who is stupid and socially inept or unattractive; a social outcast
10. One who is stupid and socially inept or unattractive; a social outcast.
    dated, derogatory, informal, sometimes

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Examples

“The bullies used to call him a nerd at school.”

“1953 Advertisement for "Businessman's Lunch", a play by Michael Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd – until, that is, they learn he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter.”

“I once found myself listening to a gay man who was saying wistfully, "I wish there was someplace you could go, maybe a club, where only masculine men would be allowed in." […] Ever tactful, I did not point out to him that if such a place existed, he probably would not be allowed into it, for while he wasn't a campy sort he was too much of a nerd to meet his own specification.”

“"We were all geeks and nerds, but he was unusually poorly adjusted," recalls Chess, now a mathematics professor at Hunter College.”

“"Yes, I am super nerd, and the whole room cracked up," Said Orszag.”

“a computer nerd”

“a comic-book nerd”

“ALICE: Prithee , what might a nerd be ? GLORIA: A nerd is an idiot or other person absurd.”

“To much of the world, we in America are nerds. We don't understand the world we live in.”

“"You're a nerd, Jake, a nerd. You're stupid. You're clumsy. You're dirt, Jake. You're nothing."”

“Nerds of the Old West”

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