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 ?

Noun

(es)

A thief.

An informer, usually one who betrays his group.

(rft-sense) (British) A nose.

* 1897 , W.S. Maugham, , chapter 1

'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!'

'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "

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, year=1960 , year_published=2001 , publisher=Penguin Classics , author=Barbara Wright (tr.) , by=Raymond Queneau , title=Zazie in the metro , original=Zazie dans le métro citation , isbn=9780142180044 , page=96 , passage=He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that isn’t white) but impregnated with Barbouze, the Fior perfume, and with it dabbed his snitch .}}

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, year=1978 , year_published=1999 , publisher=University of Chicago Press , author=Brenda R. Silver , quotee=Alan Bennett , title=Virginia Woolf icon , section=Take Seven: British Graffiti: Me ,I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf'' and ''Sammy And Rosie Get Laid citation , isbn=9780226757452 , page=158 , passage= On one level clearly emblematic of her class status, “she’d have really looked down her snitch at me”), Virginia Woolf's nose, both Bennett and his audience would know, signifies as well the far more frightening power, the phallic power, attributed to women, strong women in particular.}}

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, year=1994 , publisher=HarperCollins , author=Christine Marion Fraser , title=Noble Beginnings citation , isbn=9780002241014 , page=74 , passage=‘Yes, I’m a witch! I wiggle my snitch![...]’}}

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, year=1999 , date=September 27 , author="billy" , title=Re: Babies Having Babies , newsgroup=uk.media.tv.misc citation , passage=Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.}}

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, year=1999 , date=March 26 , author=G Greenway , title=Re: aah-cho!! , newsgroup=alt.gothic citation , passage=Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?}}

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, year=2001 , date=July 27 , author=catmandoo , title=Re: Please help me to be 'correct'. , newsgroup=uk.local.isle-of-wight citation , passage=Have a perpetual dew drop hanging from your snitch }}