nerd
noun
a single-minded person obsessed with a hobby or pursuit or with a particular topic.
nerdish
-
a word derived from
nerd.
Example Sentences
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And we are treated to lashings of nerdish criminological data.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
The president - a wealthy businessman - spoke with almost nerdish enthusiasm about investment and infrastructure projects, about reducing the cost of doing business, cutting red tape, improving broadband connectivity and so on.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2019
This is fiendishly difficult to get right, and efforts to calculate this figure began, like so many mathematical techniques, as a matter of marginal, somewhat nerdish interest during the 1930s.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2017
There is something comforting and proudly nerdish about walking around in black ankle socks and a pair of casual slides.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2016
Under his nerdish SF-fan exterior is a core of iron.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
