nerd

noun

1. (derogatory, slang, sometimes)A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.

   “The bullies used to call him a nerd at school.”

   “1953 Advertisement for "Businessman's Lunch", a play by Michael 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.”

   “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.”

   “"We were all geeks and nerds, but he was unusually poorly adjusted," recalls Chess, now a mathematics professor at Hunter College.”

   “"Yes, I am super nerd, and the whole room cracked up," Said Orszag.”

2. (derogatory, informal, sometimes)One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.

   “a computer nerd”

   “a comic-book nerd”

3. (derogatory, informal, sometimes)A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media.
4. (dated, derogatory, informal, sometimes)One who is stupid and socially inept or unattractive; a social outcast.

   “ALICE: Prithee , what might a nerd be ? GLORIA: A nerd is an idiot or other person absurd.”

   “To much of the world, we in America are nerds. We don't understand the world we live in.”

   “"You're a nerd, Jake, a nerd. You're stupid. You're clumsy. You're dirt, Jake. You're nothing."”

   “Nerds of the Old West”

5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of nonerosive reflux disease.

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of NERDS.