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• n  an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
• n  an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession

• Former PTI reporter Benjamin Nugent, author of American Nerd: The Story of My People, is also worried about the Urkel effect, though he thinks Obama is less nerd than nerd-adjacent.

• swot
• grind
• wonk
• dweeb

News & Articles

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• What’s New in iOS 7, the Radical Redesign of Apple’s Mobile Experience
  Happy Nerd Christmas! Apple CEO Tim Cook got you a new operating system for the iPhone and iPad. It looks different. It works differently. It has a host of new features and design elements--from full multitasking to the Pandora-like iTunes ...        
  June 14, 2013 - Wired News
• Desiree Hartsock: 25 Things You Don't Know About Me
  The Bachelorette 's Desiree Hartsock , 27, opens up to Us. The Bachelorette airs on ABC Mondays at 8 P.M. 1. I'm a book nerd. I want to write one. 2. I played volleyball in high school.
  June 14, 2013 - US Weekly
• A comic-book nerd's take on 'Man of Steel'
  As a shy and tortured teenage nerd, I cherished my Superman comic books like little else.
  June 13, 2013 - Pioneer Press

Quotes

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• Joe Quesada in FOXNews
  How great is that? The commander in chief to be is actually a nerd in chief,Quesada said. "It was really, really cool to see that we had a geek in the White House. We're all thrilled with that."
• William Wulf in Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
  One of the reasons has to do with the negative stereotype in engineering - the nerd drinking Cokes and eating Twinkies until 3 in the morning,said William Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineerin. "The really important...
• DL Hughley in Newsweek
  He does look like the dude from 'Mad' magazine,Hughley joked of the Democratic presidential nominee in an interview with AP Television. "It's so funny because he ain't a cool dude to me. He's like a tall Urkel dude (the bespectacled nerd...