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nerdhead en · NOUN

Etymology

From nerd + -head.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, slang) A nerdy person.
   • Some moment of every summer finds me all out of canning jars. So I go to town and stand in line at the hardware store carrying one or two boxes of canning jars and lids, renewing my membership in a secret society. […] These folks must see me as an anomaly of my generation, an earnest holdout, while the younger clientele see me as a primordial nerdhead, if they even notice. 2007, Barbara Kingsolver, “Life in a Red State: August” (chapter 13), in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, published 2008, →ISBN, page 199:

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nerdface