Nerd vs Ferd - What's the difference?
nerd | ferd |
A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
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One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.
An army, a host.
* 1330 , Robert Mannyng, Chronicle
A military expedition.
* c. 1050 , The Paris Psalter
A company, band, or group.
* c. 1400 ,
*1986 , Jack Arthur Walter Bennett, ?Douglas Gray, Middle English literature - Volume 1 - Page 89 :
(obsolete) Fear.
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As nouns the difference between nerd and ferd
is that nerd is a person who is intellectual but generally introverted while ferd is an army, a host.nerd
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Alternative forms
* nurd (very rare)Noun
(en noun)"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.
- a computer nerd
- a comic-book nerd
- 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 alsoDerived 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 * technonerdReferences
*Online Etymology Dictionary
External links
* (wikipedia) * (commonslite)Anagrams
* English terms with unknown etymologies ----ferd
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ferde, feord, furd, from (etyl) fyrd, fierd, . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- With þe wille I go als felawes in ferd .
- (With thee will I go as fellows in a ferd .)
- Þeah þu mid us ne fare on fyrd ...
- (Though thou with us not fare on a ferd ...)
- And foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght... with fyfty, in a furthe , all of fuerse vesell.
- (And four score fine ships to the fleet brought... with fifty in a ferd , all of fierce vessel.)
- For him a lord (British or Roman) is essentially a leader of a 'ferd' (OE fyrd); […]
