Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - nerd
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Nerd
nerd
(nerds) If you say that someone is a nerd, you mean that they are stupid or ridiculous, especially because they wear unfashionable clothes or show too much interest in computers or science. (INFORMAL, OFFENSIVE) Mark claimed he was made to look a nerd. ...the notion that users of the Internet are all sad computer nerds. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval
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noun Etymology: perhaps from ~, a creature in the children's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950) by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) Date: 1951 an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits computer ~s • ~iness noun • ~ish adjective • ~y adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (also nurd) esp. US sl. a foolish, feeble, or uninteresting person. Derivatives nerdy adj. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. uncert. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n informal 1 someone who is boring and unfashionable 2 someone who is extremely interested in computers - nerdy adj (nerdy glasses) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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physiol. abbr. No Evidence of Recurrent Disease funny abbr. Nice Encrypting And Representing Datatool funny abbr. Never Ending Research And Development funny abbr. Never Ending Radical Dude funny abbr. Need Electronic Rescuer Dial adult abbr. Never Ever Really Dumb network. abbr. Networked Electronic Resources Decision network. abbr. Network Engineering Routing Design music abbr. NoOne Ever Really Dies ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- 1951, U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of 1940s slang nert "stupid or crazy person," itself an alteration of nut. Nerdy is from 1978. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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