noun
- a person who is socially awkward or unfashionable and is interested in technical or academic subjects
Usage: informal; variant spelling of 'nerd'
Examples
- He was called a nurd for spending all his time coding.
- The nurds in the computer club won the regional programming competition.
- She didn't mind being a nurd; she loved mathematics and science.
- Back in high school, the nurds sat together at lunch and talked about video games.
- He embraced his identity as a nurd and became a successful software engineer.