Talk:narg

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"[N]ot a real gentleman". Someone who talks shop outside of work. Sounds like nonsense to me. Mglovesfun (talk) 16:58, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

One use in Google Books: [1] Equinox ◑ 18:59, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Seems to be Cambridge University slang, rather than general use. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:29, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted. —Ruakh_TALK 16:17, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Computing sense

Narg and/or nargs seems to have some meaning in the computing (specifically, coding?) world, related to arg(s). - -sche (discuss) 23:51, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

nargs may be short for "number of arguments", but it seems a variable or parameter name, not an English word. Equinox ◑ 13:45, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Etymology

The etymology listed is in all likelihood a folk etymology, as these acronyms tend to be. Though I can't find a source to support it, and such a source may not exist, narg is probably simply an alteration of nerd (itself notorious for folk-etymological backronyms) or nard (a candidate for the source of nerd).  — J​as​p​e​t 01:47, 10 February 2019 (UTC)