narg

plural nargs

1. InternetA nerd, someone with extensive knowledge of a particular technical field.

   1997, November 4, Sunday lunch, cam.misc I don't work in the computer industry, either, but all my friends are sad nargs who sit around talking about things like HHGTTG.

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   Perhaps I can be of some assistance here, as I appear to be a member of the Rules subcommittee and am therefore (and for other reasons to numerous to mention) a narg.

   1994 November 7, purvis, “Postal Tiddlywinks”, in alt.games.tiddlywinks (Usenet)

   1998, June 11, Unusual job for talented computer programmer, cam.misc ... most of my adult life going out with a succession of computer programmers, physicists, engineers, budding mathematicians and general nargs of both sexes.

   > Tried that myself as a kid (must be an inquisitive nargy engineering > thing). Oi! Brown! Are you calling me a narg? Oh well, fair enough I suppose :-)

   2001 February 2, Vicky Larmour, “Any americans reading this? - HELP!!!!”, in cam.misc (Usenet)

   'I mean what makes you think he's a poofdah, you narg?' 'I 'aven't got where I am today wivout bein' able to spot a poofdah when I see one. Besides, I used to listen to 'im on the phone talkin' to 'is poofdah friends.

   2011, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Corridors of Death: A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery, page 116

plural NARGs

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of not a real gentleman.

   But the school system is not perfect, so many kids still grow up to be NARGs. Computer programming, as a young science, is ideal territory for a NARG.

   1995, Anti-C Tirade (Let's Hear it for Pascal), comp.lang.pascal.mac, September 30