Nerd vs Harry - What's the difference?
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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.
To bother; to trouble.
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To strip; to lay waste.
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As a noun nerd
is nerd (a person, often very studious, with poor social skills).As a proper noun harry is
, also used as a pet form of henry and harold.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 ----harry
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Verb
(en-verb)- We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy.
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- The Northmen came several times and harried the land.
- to harry this beautiful region
- A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush.