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Nerd vs Fanboy - What's the difference?

nerd | fanboy |

As nouns the difference between nerd and fanboy

is that nerd is a person who is intellectual but generally introverted while fanboy is a male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).

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)

    Anagrams

    * English terms with unknown etymologies ----

    fanboy

    English

    (wikipedia fanboy)

    Alternative forms

    * fanboi

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1988 , month = August , title = Comics , first = Bart , last = Bull , magazine = , issn = 0886-3032 , volume = 4 , issue = 5 , page = 41 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=XAZuVTiu8yMC&pg=PA41&dq=fanboys , passage = (It's in the nature of comic book fanboy' obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two ' fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.) }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1998 , month = September , title = Exposure: Tales From the Dark Side , first = Brian , last = Doherty , magazine = , issn = 0886-3032 , volume = 14 , issue = 9 , page = 108 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=-5EbyHNqgkwC&pg=PA108&dq=fanboys , passage = Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women. }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 2008-12-10 , title = What's so great about Macs? , first = Tim , last = Barribeau , newspaper = (The Sydney Morning Herald) , issn = 0312-6315 , url = http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/whats-so-great-about-macs-20090615-cb42.html , accessdate = 2012-10-20 , passage = Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults. }}

    Coordinate terms

    * fangirl

    See also

    * geek * nerd * otaku