nargery
English
editEtymology
editFrom the uncommon slang word narg (“nerd”), from NARG (“not a real gentleman”), said to have originated at Cambridge.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnargery (uncountable)
- Technical discussion, shop talk.
- 1997 June 13, Mark Baker, “POLICE AND EMAIL SECURITY”, in demon.service (Usenet):
- Anyway, most email I send, and I suspect most email most people send, is not particularly interesting, consisting mostly of unix nargery, photocopier humour and the occasional attempt to organise social events.
- 1998 January 21, Paul Wright, “Christ Returning”, in uk.religion.christian (Usenet):
- It has become TGGD[i] with a side order of nargery about cyperpunk books and virtual reality (occasioned by the comment that "Paradigm Shift" sounds vaguely Gibson-esque or something).
- 1999 October 28, "Rant on Hardcore fandom" / "Now Sailor Moon, was Hardcore fandom/", in uk.media.animation.anime, Usenet, "Wednesday" (username):
- By the point I got involved there, it had become an issue of technical nargery rather than attack, and do you really expect an obsessive htmlgeek to pass that up? :)
- 2000 January 24, Peter Maydell, “HTML nargery (was: Re: NTL cable modem roll out)”, in cam.misc (Usenet):
- 2004 April 23, Simon Cozens, “A12: Typed undef”, in perl.perl6.language (Usenet):
- It would make some of the current p6i nargery a bit simpler, too.