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nerd
(encz) | nerd,blbeček n: |
nerd
(encz) | nerd,křupan n: web |
nerd
(encz) | nerd,šprt n: |
nerd
(wn) | nerd
n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected
or boringly studious [syn: swot, grind, nerd, wonk,
dweeb]
2: an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular
technical field or profession |
nerd
(foldoc) | nerd
A generally pejortive term for any person who is
socially inept and studious or demonstrates obsessive
knowledge of something. For example, a computer nerd. The
term first appeared in print in "If I Ran the Zoo", 1950 by
Dr. Seuss.
Compare: geek.
(2010-02-28)
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nerd
(jargon) | nerd
n.
1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ
and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals.
2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense
1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and doesn't
care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare {
geek}.
The word itself appears to derive from the lines “And then, just to show
them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a
Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!” in the Dr. Seuss book If
I Ran the Zoo (1950). (The spellings ‘nurd’ and ‘gnurd’ also used to be
current at MIT, where ‘nurd’ is reported from as far back as 1957; however,
knurd appears to have a separate etymology.) How it developed its
mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass
culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it
meant roughly “annoying misfit” without the connotation of intelligence.
Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some
actually wear “Nerd Pride” buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can
find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan
and the MIT seal.
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nerdy
(mass) | nerdy
- hlúpy |
ownerdriver
(mass) | owner-driver
- šofér vlastniaci auto |
nerdy
(encz) | nerdy,hloupý |
owner-driver
(gcide) | owner-driver \owner-driver\ n.
a motorist who owns the vehicle that he/she drives.
[WordNet 1.5] |
computer nerd
(foldoc) | computer geek
computer nerd
geek
turbo nerd
(Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats
(computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the
dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial,
malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality
of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders
without implied insult to all hackers; compare
black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be
either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker
in larval stage.
See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking,
geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
[Jargon File]
(1997-06-26)
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nerd pride
(foldoc) | Nerd pride
The Nerd Pride movement, modeled on the Gay Pride
movement, was started at MIT by Professors Gerald Sussman
and Hal Abelson. Nerd pride paraphernalia includes baseball
hats, buttons and - of course - pocket protectors.
"My idea is to present an image to children that it is good to
be intellectual, and not to care about the peer pressures to
be anti-intellectual. I want every child to turn into a nerd
- where that means someone who prefers studying and learning
to competing for social dominance".
-- Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, "New York Times",
1994-08-29.
(1994-11-11)
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turbo nerd
(foldoc) | computer geek
computer nerd
geek
turbo nerd
(Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats
(computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the
dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial,
malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality
of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders
without implied insult to all hackers; compare
black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be
either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker
in larval stage.
See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking,
geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
[Jargon File]
(1997-06-26)
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nerd knob
(jargon) | nerd knob
n.
[Cisco] A command in a complex piece of software which is more likely to be
used by an extremely experienced user to tweak a setting of one sort or
another - a setting which the average user may not even know exists. Nerd
knobs tend to be toggles, turning on or off a particular, specific,
narrowly defined behavior. Special case of knobs.
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turbo nerd
(jargon) | turbo nerd
n.
See geek.
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