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emo | nerd |

As nouns the difference between emo and nerd

is that emo is a particular style of hardcore punk rock while nerd is a person who is intellectual but generally introverted.

As an adjective emo

is emotional; sensitive.

As a proper noun Emo

is a village in Ireland.

emo

English

(wikipedia emo)

Noun

  • A particular style of hardcore punk rock
  • An individual or group of people associated with that subculture and musical style.
  • Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional
  • An individual or group of people associated with a fashion or stereotype of that style of rock.
  • A young person who is considered to be over-emotional or stereotypically emo.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (often, pejorative) Emotional; sensitive.
  • (informal, often, pejorative) Depressed.
  • * 2008 , Vanity Fair (issue 578)
    • Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.
  • Associated with youth subcultures embodying emotional sensitivity.
  • * 2007 , James A. Reinking, Robert Von Der Osten, Strategies for successful writing
    • The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo .
  • * 2012 , Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
    • Trevor looks kind of emo , rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

    Derived terms

    * emotard

    Anagrams

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    nerd

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nurd (very rare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
  • * 1953 Advertisement for "Businessman's Lunch", a play by Micheal Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi
    • They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd – until, that is, they learn he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter.
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  • One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
    • a computer nerd
    a comic-book nerd
  • An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.
    • Only a nerd would wear yellow and blue stripes with green pants
    Nerds seem to have fun with each other, but in a way that causes others to laugh AT them.
    Why are you hanging out with that nerd ?

    Synonyms

    * (sense) dag (Australian), doofus, dork, dweeb, geek, goober, loser, propeller head, twerp, * See also

    Derived terms

    * arachnerd * cybernerd * entreprenerd * millionerd * nerdboy * nerdbrain * nerdcore * nerdette * nerdfest * nerdgasm * Nerdic * nerdification * nerdify * nerdiness * nerdish * nerdism * nerdistan * nerdlet * nerdlike * nerdling * nerdlinger * nerdo * nerdom/nerddom * nerd out * nerdsome * nerdspeak * nerdtastic * nerdvana * nerdy * technonerd

    References

    * Online Etymology Dictionary

    External links

    * (wikipedia) * (commonslite)

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