Nerdery

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Nerdish behaviour or attitudes. informal, uncountable

    "'Stamps were made for computers,' he told me, 'because they look beautiful when scanned and enlarged, it's so easy to catalogue and trade them, and the nerdery of stamps and the early nerdery of computers were made for each other. […]"

Example

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"'Stamps were made for computers,' he told me, 'because they look beautiful when scanned and enlarged, it's so easy to catalogue and trade them, and the nerdery of stamps and the early nerdery of computers were made for each other. […]"

Etymology

From nerd + -ery.

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