Meaning of nerdery | Babel Free

Definitions

Nerdish behaviour or attitudes.

informal, uncountable

Examples

“'Stamps were made for computers,' he told me, 'because they look⟳ beautiful when scanned and enlarged, it's so easy to catalogue and trade⟳ them, and the nerdery of stamps and the early nerdery of computers were made for each other. […]”

“I've occasionally dreamed ideas for types of music. One was called "reality" score⟳ and it involved the use⟳ of samples. Every sound⟳ was sampled from a momentous historical recording-the snare drum was a recording of the shot that killed President Kennedy, and so on. I still think⟳ this could be great, but I don't have⟳ the necessary persistence and nerdery to actually get⟳ it done.”

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