Nerd vs. Geek

Nerdnoun

A person who is intellectual but generally introverted

Nerdnoun

One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.

Nerdnoun

An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.

Nerdnoun

(post-1980s) A member of a subculture revolving around video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media.

Nerdnoun

an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

Nerdnoun

a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious

Nerdnoun

a single-minded expert in a particular technical field

Nerd

A nerd is a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introverted or lacking social skills. Such a person may spend inordinate amounts of time on unpopular, little known, or non-mainstream activities, which are generally either highly technical, abstract, or relating to topics of science fiction or fantasy, to the exclusion of more mainstream activities.

Geeknoun

(dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.

Geeknoun

(colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun.

Geeknoun

An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.

Geeknoun

(colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks.

Geeknoun

(colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.

Geeknoun

A look.

Geekverb

(colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence of drugs or other psycho-active substances, and exhibiting such marked characteristics as hyperactivity, repetitiveness, talkativeness, nervousness, irritability, or paranoia.

Geekverb

(Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.

Geeknoun

A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake.

Geeknoun

Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric.

Geeknoun

A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his class, especially one who is an intellectual; a nerd; a dork.

Geeknoun

An intellectually inclined person, especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; as, a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors; - originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's, with the increase in popularity of computers and the frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable frequency by technically competent people to refer to themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly.

Geeknoun

a carnival performer who does disgusting acts

Geeknoun

a person with an unusual or odd personality

Geek

The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit. In the past, it had a generally pejorative meaning of a .