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Meanings of nerd in English
Descriptive term, often used pejoratively, indicating that a person is overly intellectual, obsessive, or socially impaired, while tending to conduct characteristic activities like computing and science.
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Usage of nerd in English
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Years earlier, he had become a self-proclaimed coffee nerd almost by accident.
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What's the point being a nerd if you cannot learn such things?
3
One player is eliminated each week in a test of nerd-related skill.
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Mitch from Real Genius: Perhaps the truest warts-and-all depiction of a nerd.
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Reuters: Do you think that being a math nerd is an advantage?
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Young Jefferson was a polymath, an autodidact, a nerd literally without peer.
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I can relate to the first part of Wikipedia's definition of nerd.
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Mark Broatch is a self-professed language nerd...also a writer, editor and journalist.
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As a recovering high school nerd, I knew a bit about beryllium.
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Ultimately, Paul boils down to a vaguely charming string of nerd in-jokes.
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There's also the nerd stereotype- Idon'tthink of myself as a nerd.
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In 2008, I hereby resolve to exalt and uphold the nerd lifestyle.
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Actually read my favorite comics instead of cheating off my nerd neighbor.
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Until they'd met, he'd been the classic nerd, both studious and shy.
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Maybe he has a female counterpart, Nina, the nerd in name alone.
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We're not that cool; you're just that much of a fucking nerd.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common