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Nerd vs Precocious - What's the difference?

nerd | precocious |

As a noun nerd

is nerd (a person, often very studious, with poor social skills).

As an adjective precocious is

characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.

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 ----

    precocious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2014
    • , date=November 14 , author=Stephen Halliday , title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=Scotland’s most encouraging early source of an attacking threat was Andrew Robertson as the precocious left-back charged forward to good effect on a couple of occasions. }}
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    • Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.
  • Exhibiting advanced skills at an abnormally early age.
    • The precocious child began reading the newspaper at age four.

    Quotations

    * 1964 , , “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, Mary Poppins , Walt Disney *: Mary: Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious / If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

    Synonyms

    * tranty

    Antonyms

    * altricious * serotinous

    See also

    * prodigy

    External links

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