单词 | nerdish |
释义 | nerdishadj. slang (originally U.S.). Usually depreciative. Having the characteristics of a ‘nerd’; typical or suggestive of a ‘nerd’; = nerdy adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > of people vile1340 light1529 sixpenny1561 single-soled1588 squirting1592 washya1631 insignificant1669 snotty-nosed1682 nerdy1960 nerkish1975 nerdish1980 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 June c7/1 Feste the clown,..the loud, belching Sir Toby and..the nerdish Sir Andrew bring a kind of vaudevillian energy to the stage. 1988 R. Stone Keeping Future at Bay in G. Wolff Best Amer. Ess. (1989) 258 An amiably nerdish young man in a baseball hat. 1994 This Mag. (Toronto) Nov. 3/2 What on earth does ‘co-optation’ mean? It sounds rather nerdish, like something out of the user's manual for WordPerfect. 1996 Times 20 May 15/7 Shamed by the billionaire's poise of Sir James Goldsmith, they are hurling out their nerdish striped ties and viscose shirts. 2001 D. Mitchell Number 9 Dream 347 Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, right. Ghosts in the machine, not nerdish vandals. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1980 |
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