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Nerd vs Nard - What's the difference?

nerd | nard |

As nouns the difference between nerd and nard

is that nerd is a person who is intellectual but generally introverted while nard is a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, flatulence, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.

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 ----

    nard

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) narde, from (etyl) nardus, from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • A flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, flatulence, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.
  • A fragrant oil formerly much prized from the plant.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Mark XIV:
    • there cam a woman with an alablaster boxe of oyntmenr, called narde , that was pure and costly, and she brake the boxe and powred it on his heed.
  • Spikenard
    • Related terms
    * spikenard

    References

    * nard'', in ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary , 2nd edition, 1987.

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Testicles.
    • The soccer ball hit me right in the nards !
    Synonyms
    * (testicles) balls, nuts

    Anagrams

    * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • (plant or oil)

    • References

    * ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • valerian

    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)