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nerd

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1. nerd - Noun

2. Nerd - Proper noun

Meaning

an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession

an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

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Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. Moby

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd. Patrick Stump

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer. Douglas Adams

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. Penelope Lively

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd. Alberto Manguel

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