"nerd" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /nɜːd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /nɝːd/ [US] Audio: En-au-nerd.ogg [Australia] Forms: nerds [plural]
enPR: nûd, nûrd Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d Etymology: Unknown. Attested since 1951 as US student slang. * Perhaps an alteration of nerts (“nuts", "crazy”); see references below. * The word, capitalized, appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo as the name of an imaginary animal: *: And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Katroo / And bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd and a Seersucker too! * Possibly a rebracketing of inert as a nert, as in he's inert = he's a nerd, in reference to one's competence or athletic ability. * Various unlikely folk etymologies and less likely backronymic speculations also exist. Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown, {{m|en|nerts||nuts", "crazy}} nerts (“nuts", "crazy”), {{m|en|inert}} inert, {{m|en||a nert}} a nert Head templates: {{en-noun}} nerd (plural nerds)
  1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted. Tags: derogatory, slang, sometimes Categories (topical): People Translations (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted): خَبَّاش (ḵabbāš) [masculine] (Algerian Arabic), قَرَّاي (qarrāy) [masculine] (Algerian Arabic), نِيرْد (nīrd) [masculine] (Arabic), غِيك (ḡīk) [masculine] (Arabic), مُهَوَّس (muhawwas) [masculine] (Arabic), اِنْطِوَائِيّ (inṭiwāʔiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), قرّاي (qrrāi) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), ներդ (nerd) (Armenian), կրծող (krcoġ) (Armenian), բոտանիկ (botanik) (Armenian), 毒男 (Chinese Cantonese), 书呆子 (shūdāizi) (Chinese Mandarin), zažraný mimoň [masculine] (Czech), nerd [masculine] (Czech), nørd (Danish), nerd [masculine] (Dutch), nerdo (Esperanto), nohik (Estonian), tuupur (Estonian), nørdur [masculine] (Faroese), nörtti (Finnish), nerd [masculine] (French), Sonderling [masculine] (German), Nerd [masculine] (German), Fachidiot [masculine] (German), Tüftler [masculine] (German), Bücherwurm [masculine] (German), Computerfreak [masculine] (German), σπασίκλας (spasíklas) [masculine] (Greek), φυτό (fytó) (Greek), לַפְלַף (Hebrew), חְנון (Hebrew), nörd (Icelandic), saoithín [masculine] (Irish), secchione [masculine] (Italian), オタク (otaku) (Japanese), おたく (otaku) (Japanese), ナード (nādo) (Japanese), がり勉 (gariben) (alt: がりべん) [slang] (Japanese), 오타쿠 (otaku) (Korean), moksliukas [masculine] (Lithuanian), moksliukė [feminine] (Lithuanian), nerda (Malay), ബുജി (buji) (Malayalam), nerd [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), nerd [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), nerd [masculine] (Polish), nerd [Brazil] (Portuguese), CDF [Brazil] (Portuguese), totó [Portugal, colloquial, feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), tocilar [masculine] (Romanian), tocilară [feminine] (Romanian), зану́да (zanúda) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), бoтáн (botán) [masculine] (Russian), нерд (nerd) [masculine, slang] (Russian), бота́ник (botánik) [masculine] (Russian), штребер [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ñoño [masculine] (Spanish), cerebrito [masculine] (Spanish), mateo [Chile, masculine] (Spanish), norio [Ecuador, masculine] (Spanish), matado [Peru, masculine] (Spanish), empollón [Spain, masculine] (Spanish), friki [Spain, feminine, masculine] (Spanish), nörd [common-gender] (Swedish), เนิร์ด (nerd) (Thai), หนอนหนังสือ (nɔ̌ɔn-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ) (Thai), nerd (Turkish), inek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-nerd-en-noun-oOREyBej Disambiguation of People: 28 32 15 24 Disambiguation of 'intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted': 79 9 5 7
  2. (informal, sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. Tags: derogatory, informal, sometimes Categories (topical): People Synonyms: geek, dag (alt: Australian), geek, propeller head
    Sense id: en-nerd-en-noun-hkBZ1BYT Disambiguation of People: 28 32 15 24
  3. (informal, sometimes derogatory) A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. [from 1980s] Tags: derogatory, informal, sometimes Categories (topical): People, Stock characters
    Sense id: en-nerd-en-noun-2twpWyh2 Disambiguation of People: 28 32 15 24 Disambiguation of Stock characters: 5 26 63 7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 20 60 15 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 8 23 52 17 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 23 50 17
  4. (informal, sometimes derogatory, dated) One who is socially inept or unattractive, but often brainy; a social outcast. Tags: dated, derogatory, informal, sometimes Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-nerd-en-noun-Gjt-5m5c Disambiguation of People: 28 32 15 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: knurd (english: folk etymology) [rare], nurd [rare]

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          "tags": [
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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            "masculine"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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          "word": "Fachidiot"
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          "lang": "German",
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            "masculine"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "spasíklas",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "fytó",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "φυτό"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "לַפְלַף"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "חְנון"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "nörd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "saoithín"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "secchione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "otaku",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "オタク"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "otaku",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "おたく"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nādo",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "ナード"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 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 9 5 7",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "otaku",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "오타쿠"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "moksliukas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "moksliukė"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "nerda"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "buji",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "ബുജി"
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          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
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          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "nerd"
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          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "nerd"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "nerd"
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          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "Brazil"
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          "word": "nerd"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "Brazil"
          ],
          "word": "CDF"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "Portugal",
            "colloquial",
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "totó"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tocilar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tocilară"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zanúda",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "зану́да"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "botán",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "бoтáн"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nerd",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "нерд"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "botánik",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "бота́ник"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "штребер"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ñoño"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cerebrito"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "Chile",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mateo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "Ecuador",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "norio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "Peru",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "matado"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "Spain",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "empollón"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "Spain",
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "friki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "nörd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "nerd",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "เนิร์ด"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "nɔ̌ɔn-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "หนอนหนังสือ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "nerd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 9 5 7",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
          "word": "inek"
        }
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        {
          "_dis": "28 32 15 24",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
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        {
          "text": "a computer nerd",
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        },
        {
          "text": "a comic-book nerd",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something."
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        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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        [
          "obsessive",
          "obsessive"
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        "(informal, sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "geek"
        },
        {
          "alt": "Australian",
          "word": "dag"
        },
        {
          "word": "geek"
        },
        {
          "word": "propeller head"
        }
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        "derogatory",
        "informal",
        "sometimes"
      ]
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        {
          "_dis": "6 20 60 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 23 52 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 23 50 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "28 32 15 24",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "5 26 63 7",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Stock characters",
          "orig": "en:Stock characters",
          "parents": [
            "Fictional characters",
            "Fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. [from 1980s]",
        "A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media."
      ],
      "id": "en-nerd-en-noun-2twpWyh2",
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        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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        [
          "intellectualism",
          "intellectualism"
        ],
        [
          "technology",
          "technology"
        ],
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ]
      ],
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        "(informal, sometimes derogatory) A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. [from 1980s]"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "informal",
        "sometimes"
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "28 32 15 24",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "One who is socially inept or unattractive, but often brainy; a social outcast."
      ],
      "id": "en-nerd-en-noun-Gjt-5m5c",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "inept",
          "inept"
        ],
        [
          "unattractive",
          "unattractive"
        ],
        [
          "outcast",
          "outcast"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, sometimes derogatory, dated) One who is socially inept or unattractive, but often brainy; a social outcast."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "derogatory",
        "informal",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/nɜːd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nɝːd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)d"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-nerd.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/En-au-nerd.ogg/En-au-nerd.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/En-au-nerd.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "nûd"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "nûrd"
    }
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "knurd"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "nurd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nerd"
}
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    "English nouns",
    "English student slang",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)d",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)d/1 syllable",
    "en:People",
    "en:Stock characters"
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    {
      "word": "arachnerd"
    },
    {
      "word": "cybernerd"
    },
    {
      "word": "entreprenerd"
    },
    {
      "word": "millionerd"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdboy"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdbrain"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdcore"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdette"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdfest"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdgasm"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerd glasses"
    },
    {
      "word": "Nerdic"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdification"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdify"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdiness"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdish"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdism"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdistan"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdlet"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdlike"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdling"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdlinger"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdo"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdom"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerddom"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerd out"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerd pole"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerd revolution"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerd-snipe"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerd snipe"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdsome"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdspeak"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdtastic"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdvana"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerdy"
    },
    {
      "word": "technonerd"
    },
    {
      "word": "word nerd"
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "nerd",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Dutch: nerd",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: nerd"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fo",
            "2": "nørdur",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Faroese: nørdur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Faroese: nørdur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "nörtti",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Finnish: nörtti",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Finnish: nörtti"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "nörd",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "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"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "nerd",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: nerd",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: nerd"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "nerd",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: nerd",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: nerd"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "nerd",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: nerd",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: nerd"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "nörd",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: nörd",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: nörd"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tr",
            "2": "nörd",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Turkish: nörd",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Turkish: nörd"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "en"
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      "expansion": "Unknown",
      "name": "unk"
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        "2": "nerts",
        "3": "",
        "4": "nuts\", \"crazy"
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      "name": "m"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "inert"
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      "expansion": "inert",
      "name": "m"
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
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      "expansion": "a nert",
      "name": "m"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Attested since 1951 as US student slang.\n* Perhaps an alteration of nerts (“nuts\", \"crazy”); see references below.\n* The word, capitalized, appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo as the name of an imaginary animal:\n*: And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Katroo / And bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd and a Seersucker too!\n* Possibly a rebracketing of inert as a nert, as in he's inert = he's a nerd, in reference to one's competence or athletic ability.\n* Various unlikely folk etymologies and less likely backronymic speculations also exist.",
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        "plural"
      ]
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      "args": {},
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    }
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        "English derogatory terms",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "1953 Advertisement for \"Businessman's Lunch\", a play by Micheal 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": "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
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        }
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        {
          "text": "a computer nerd",
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        },
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          "text": "a comic-book nerd",
          "type": "example"
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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          "word": "dag"
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      ],
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        "A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. [from 1980s]",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)d"
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      ],
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      "enpr": "nûd"
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      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "نِيرْد"
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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        "masculine"
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "code": "ar",
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      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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        "Moroccan-Arabic"
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      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "nerd",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "ներդ"
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      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "կրծող"
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      "roman": "botanik",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "բոտանիկ"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "毒男"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shūdāizi",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "书呆子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zažraný mimoň"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "nørd"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "nerdo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "nohik"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "tuupur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nørdur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "nörtti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sonderling"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Fachidiot"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Tüftler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bücherwurm"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Computerfreak"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "spasíklas",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "σπασίκλας"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fytó",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "φυτό"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "לַפְלַף"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "חְנון"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "nörd"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saoithín"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "secchione"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "otaku",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "オタク"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "otaku",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "おたく"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nādo",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "ナード"
    },
    {
      "alt": "がりべん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gariben",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "がり勉"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "otaku",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "오타쿠"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "moksliukas"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "moksliukė"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "nerda"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "buji",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "ബുജി"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ],
      "word": "nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ],
      "word": "CDF"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "colloquial",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "totó"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tocilar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tocilară"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zanúda",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зану́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "botán",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бoтáн"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nerd",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "нерд"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "botánik",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бота́ник"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "штребер"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ñoño"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cerebrito"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "Chile",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mateo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "Ecuador",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "norio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "Peru",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "matado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "empollón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "friki"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "nörd"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "nerd",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "เนิร์ด"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "nɔ̌ɔn-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "หนอนหนังสือ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "nerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted",
      "word": "inek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nerd"
}

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