nerd

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[edit] Etymology

Unknown

  • 1951, U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of nerts (“nuts", "crazy”). See references below.
  • The same word capitalized with appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo as the name of an imaginary animal:
    And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Katroo / And bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd and a Seersucker too!
  • Various unlikely folk etymologies and less likely backronym speculations also exist.

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nerd (plural nerds)

  1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual, skilled in one or more fields, and generally introverted
    • 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom:
      “We were all geeks and nerds, but he was unusually poorly adjusted,” recalls Chess, now a mathematics professor at Hunter College.
    • 2009 Feb 28, “Orszag to present budget blueprint”, WBBH:
      “Yes, I am super nerd, and the whole room cracked up,” Said Orszag.

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term derived form nerd

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intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Etymology

From English nerd.

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  • IPA: /nøːrt/

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nerd m. (plural nerds, diminutive nerdje)

  1. nerd

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Borrowing from English nerd

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nerd m.

  1. nerd

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    Inflection of nerd
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m nerd nerden nerder nerdene
Nynorsk m nerd nerden nerdar nerdane
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