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puhekieltä A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
1953 Advertisement for http://books.google.com/books?id=07brLTypf1EC&pg=PA31& "Businessman's Lunch", a play by Micheal Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi
- They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd – until, that is, they learn he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter.
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puhekieltä One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
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a computer nerd
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a comic-book nerd
puhekieltä An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.
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Only a nerd would wear yellow and blue stripes with green pants.
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Nerds seem to have fun with each other, but in a way that causes others to laugh at them.
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Why are you hanging out with that nerd?
puhekieltä A member of a subculture revolving around a mixture of video games, fantasy fiction, science fiction, comic books and assorted media.
English nerd
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