supernerd

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ nerd

Noun[edit]

supernerd (plural supernerds)

  1. (informal) A very nerdy person; a boffin.
    • 2015 October 1, Manohla Dargis, “Review: In ‘The Martian,’ Marooned but Not Alone”, in New York Times[1]:
      At NASA, various brainiacs take hammers and tongs to physics at both the Johnson Space Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where supernerds take on the logistics of a rescue mission.