Nerd

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.

a computer nerd

a comic-book nerd

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