What is "nerdish"

Usage examples of "nerdish".

Perhaps scientists are more nerdish than bartenders or surgeons or short-order cooks.

This essentially aesthetic judgement by a nerdish physicist, entirely unknown except to a few other academic scientists, has done more to shape our civilization than any ten recent presidents and prime ministers.

Why grant money now, so nerdish scientists talking incomprehensible gibberish can indulge their hobbies, when there are urgent unmet national needs?

Who would have thought two nerdish archaeologists would have sized up the situation so accurately, and in an instant formulated a very believable lie?

She looked at him again, in his nerdish T-shirt, with his baseball cap on the wooden seat beside him.

Thin, pale, nerdish, he looked more at home with a keyboard than a gun.

I had become friends with one boy who was quite nerdish, because we were both left out most of the time.

He sounded friendly and helpful with all of them, but he changed his manner subtly with each one, hearty with one, nerdish with another.

Groucho had voiced his skepticism about joining any club that would accept him as a member, and Dexter had his doubts about the hypocrisy of sucking up egoboo from an unwholesome tribe of nerdish wonks.

Blotted enough to make earnest idle conversation with nerdish kids who shouted right in his face to make themselves heard over the din, spraying him with spittle.

Jack Narkasian, a nerdish old science fiction writer whose major contribution thus far had been the occasional reaction line and the piercing blue stare of a deacon of the Church of Scientology.

Through some kind of nerdish homing instinct he finds Akihabara, the electronics district, and spends a while wandering through stores looking at all of the consumer electronics that will go on sale in the States a year from now.