1. nerd - Noun
2. Nerd - Proper noun
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
Source: WordNetCall 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