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nerdhead

nerdhead noun: a nerdy person.

Noun

nerdhead (plural nerdheads)

  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...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
    Synonyms:
    nerdface

Synonyms of nerdhead

Forms of nerdhead

pluralnerdheads

Origin of nerdhead

From nerd + -head.

Questions about nerdhead

What does nerdhead mean?
Nerdhead means a nerdy person.
What part of speech is nerdhead?
Nerdhead is a noun.
What is the plural of nerdhead?
The plural of nerdhead is nerdheads.

Words near nerdhead in the dictionary

  1. nerdfests
  2. Nerdfighter
  3. Nerdfighters
  4. nerdgasm
  5. nerdgasms
  6. nerdhead
  7. nerdheads
  8. nerdhood
  9. Nerdic
  10. nerdier
  11. nerdiest

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