nurd

nerd

1. Someone considered uncool and eccentric, typically due to being passionate about interests that are not generally popular, and perhaps also to being somewhat socially inept. Used in a derogatory way. What a nerd! Probably has his room covered in that weeaboo anime stuff. I was considered a nerd in elementary school because I was in the band and actually cared about my grades. You're not one of those science nerds, are you?
2. Someone unabashedly passionate about a very specific interest or interests. Used as a term of endearment or pride. Aw, look at our little nerd over there, obsessing over her science fair project. The conference is a great place for robotics nerds like me.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nerd

and nurd (nɚd)
n. a dull and bookish person, usually a male. That whole gang of boys is just a bunch of nurds.

nurd

verb
See nerd
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • geek
  • geke
  • nerd
  • dweeb
  • dorkus maximus
  • uncool
  • geekazoid
  • catch the wave
  • granddad
  • geekdom
References in periodicals archive
However, it is elusive of the mechanism and whether or not these repressions by Bcl11b are done through the association with NuRD or others.
(2005) BCL11B functionally associates with the NuRD complex in T lymphocytes to repress targeted promoter.
Role of the transcription factor Bcl11b in development and lymphomagenesis
What I strongly suspect is that some of the legions of upwardly mobile inadequate middle-management nurds, who would have scornfully dismissed Sir Alex, would then have turned up at their own workplace and unfairly chewed out or even sacked some poor creature without a second thought.
Football: Jonathan PEARCE - Fergie outburst showed his passion...it helped Utd put boot into Juve
But Rare is still something of an icon to game nurds and industry insiders.
A Rare bid deals family pounds 70m fortune
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