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Etymology edit

super- +‎ nerdy

Adjective edit

supernerdy (comparative more supernerdy, superlative most supernerdy)

  1. Extremely nerdy.
    • 1996 July 8, Michael Krantz, “The Literature of Nerds Goes Mainstream”, in Time:
      Back in the 1950s, science-fiction literature earned a reputation as the opiate of supernerdy teenage boys: sturdy but unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories.
    • 2008, Nick Tasler, The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All, Fireside, →ISBN, page 37:
      Microsoft was a niche business catering to a relatively small network of supernerdy customers.
    • 2013, Ophira Eisenberg, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy[1], Seal Press, →ISBN:
      My top two prospects: the supernerdy redhead Kieran, because he looked like the male version of the sexy librarian and might be a vivacious animal under that maroon cardigan; []
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:supernerdy.

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