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nerdery

nerdery noun: nerdish behaviour or attitudes.

Noun

nerdery (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Nerdish behaviour or attitudes.
    • 'Stamps were made for computers,' he told me, 'because they look beautiful when scanned and enlarged, it's so easy to catalogue and trade them, and the nerdery of stamps and the early nerdery of computers were made for each other. […]2009, Simon Garfield, The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
    • I've occasionally dreamed ideas for types of music. One was called "reality" score and it involved the use of samples. Every sound was sampled from a momentous historical recording-the snare drum was a recording of the shot that killed President Kennedy, and so on. I still think this could be...2011 July, David Mitchell, quoting Brian Eno, “A Conversation with Brian Eno”, in The Believer, McSweeney's, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    geekery

Synonyms of nerdery

Origin of nerdery

From nerd + -ery.

Questions about nerdery

What does nerdery mean?
Nerdery means nerdish behaviour or attitudes.
What part of speech is nerdery?
Nerdery is a noun.

Words near nerdery in the dictionary

  1. nerdbrains
  2. nerdcore
  3. nerddom
  4. nerded out
  5. nerderati
  6. nerdery
  7. nerdette
  8. nerdettes
  9. nerdface
  10. nerdfaces
  11. nerdfest

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