Meanings
- informaluncountableNerdish behaviour or attitudes.
'Stamps were made for computers,' he told me, 'because they look beautiful when scanned and enlarged, it's so easy to catalogue and trade them, and the nerdery of stamps and the early nerdery of computers were made for each other. […]
2009, Simon Garfield, The Error World: An Affair with Stamps1 more example
I've occasionally dreamed ideas for types of music. One was called "reality" score and it involved the use of samples. Every sound was sampled from a momentous historical recording-the snare drum was a recording of the shot that killed President Kennedy, and so on. I still think this could be great, but I don't have the necessary persistence and nerdery to actually get it done.
2011 July, David Mitchell, quoting Brian Eno, “A Conversation with Brian Eno”, in The Believer, McSweeney's, →ISSNSynonyms: geekery
Synonyms & antonyms
nounNerdish behaviour or attitudes.
Origin
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