See nerd in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "nerd revolution"
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"word": "nerdvana"
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"word": "technonerd"
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"word": "word nerd"
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"text": "→ Dutch: nerd"
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"2": "nørdur",
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"expansion": "→ Faroese: nørdur",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "→ Faroese: nørdur"
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"1": "fi",
"2": "nörtti",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Finnish: nörtti",
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"text": "→ Finnish: nörtti"
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"1": "is",
"2": "nörd",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Icelandic: nörd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Icelandic: nörd"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "nerd",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: nerd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: nerd"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "nerd",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: nerd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: nerd"
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{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "nerd",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: nerd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Polish: nerd"
},
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"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "nerd",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: nerd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: nerd"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "nerd",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: nerd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: nerd"
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nörd",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Swedish: nörd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Swedish: nörd"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "tr",
"2": "nörd",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Turkish: nörd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Turkish: nörd"
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"text": "1953 Advertisement for \"Businessman's Lunch\", a play by Michael Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi\nThey 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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{
"ref": "1984 December 29, Duncan Mitchel, “The Cult of Gay Machismo”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9:",
"text": "I once found myself listening to a gay man who was saying wistfully, \"I wish there was someplace you could go, maybe a club, where only masculine men would be allowed in.\" […] Ever tactful, I did not point out to him that if such a place existed, he probably would not be allowed into it, for while he wasn't a campy sort he was too much of a nerd to meet his own specification.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom:",
"text": "\"We were all geeks and nerds, but he was unusually poorly adjusted,\" recalls Chess, now a mathematics professor at Hunter College.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2009 February 28, “Orszag to present budget blueprint”, in WBBH:",
"text": "\"Yes, I am super nerd, and the whole room cracked up,\" Said Orszag.",
"type": "quote"
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"A person who is intellectual but generally introverted."
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"(slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted."
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "nīrd",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "نِيرْد"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ḡīk",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "غِيك"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "muhawwas",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مُهَوَّس"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "inṭiwāʔiyy",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "اِنْطِوَائِيّ"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Algerian Arabic",
"roman": "ḵabbāš",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "خَبَّاش"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "qarrāy",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "قَرَّاي"
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"roman": "qrrāi",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
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"word": "قرّاي"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "nerd",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "ներդ"
},
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"code": "hy",
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"roman": "krcoġ",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "կրծող"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "botanik",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "բոտանիկ"
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "毒男"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shūdāizi",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "书呆子"
},
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zažraný mimoň"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nerd"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nørd"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nerd"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nerdo"
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nohik"
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "tuupur"
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"code": "fo",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "nørdur"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nörtti"
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nerd"
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sonderling"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Nerd"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fachidiot"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tüftler"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bücherwurm"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Computerfreak"
},
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "spasíklas",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σπασίκλας"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "fytó",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "φυτό"
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "לַפְלַף"
},
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "חְנון"
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nörd"
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "saoithín"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "secchione"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "otaku",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "オタク"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "otaku",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "おたく"
},
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nādo",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "ナード"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"alt": "がりべん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gariben",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "がり勉"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "otaku",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "오타쿠"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moksliukas"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "moksliukė"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nerda"
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"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "buji",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "ബുജി"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nerd"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nerd"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nerd"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
],
"word": "nerd"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
],
"word": "CDF"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"Portugal",
"colloquial",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "totó"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tocilar"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tocilară"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zanúda",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "зану́да"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "botán",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бoтáн"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nerd",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"slang"
],
"word": "нерд"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "botánik",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бота́ник"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 8 6 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zadrót",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"text": "1953 Advertisement for \"Businessman's Lunch\", a play by Michael Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi\nThey 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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"ref": "1984 December 29, Duncan Mitchel, “The Cult of Gay Machismo”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9:",
"text": "I once found myself listening to a gay man who was saying wistfully, \"I wish there was someplace you could go, maybe a club, where only masculine men would be allowed in.\" […] Ever tactful, I did not point out to him that if such a place existed, he probably would not be allowed into it, for while he wasn't a campy sort he was too much of a nerd to meet his own specification.",
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"ref": "2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom:",
"text": "\"We were all geeks and nerds, but he was unusually poorly adjusted,\" recalls Chess, now a mathematics professor at Hunter College.",
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"ref": "2009 February 28, “Orszag to present budget blueprint”, in WBBH:",
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"word": "ներդ"
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"code": "yue",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "毒男"
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"roman": "shūdāizi",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "书呆子"
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"masculine"
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"word": "nerd"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nörtti"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "nerd"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Sonderling"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Nerd"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"word": "Fachidiot"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Tüftler"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bücherwurm"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Computerfreak"
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "לַפְלַף"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nörd"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "secchione"
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"slang"
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "otaku",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "오타쿠"
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"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nerda"
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"roman": "buji",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "ബുജി"
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
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"code": "nn",
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"masculine"
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"word": "nerd"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "nerd"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"Brazil"
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"word": "nerd"
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"word": "totó"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
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"word": "tocilar"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"word": "tocilară"
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"code": "ru",
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"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "зану́да"
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"code": "ru",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"word": "задро́т"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "штребер"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ñoño"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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"word": "cerebrito"
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"code": "es",
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"Chile",
"masculine"
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"word": "mateo"
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{
"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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"word": "norio"
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{
"code": "es",
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"tags": [
"Peru",
"masculine"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"tags": [
"Spain",
"masculine"
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"word": "empollón"
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"word": "friki"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"masculine"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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"word": "nörd"
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "nerd",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "เนิร์ด"
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{
"code": "th",
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"roman": "nɔ̌ɔn-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "หนอนหนังสือ"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
"word": "nerd"
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{
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"sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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