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单词 nerdish
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nerdishadj.

Brit. /ˈnəːdɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈnərdɪʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nerd n., -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < nerd n. + -ish suffix1. Compare earlier nerdy adj.
slang (originally U.S.). Usually depreciative.
Having the characteristics of a ‘nerd’; typical or suggestive of a ‘nerd’; = nerdy adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > of people
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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).
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