What’s the origin of the word nerd, referring to “an unfashionable person”? Does it come from Dr. Seuss’s book If I Ran the Zoo? (Amazon). Incidentally, a nerdle is a dollop of toothpaste on a toothbrush. Sometimes spelled...
nurdle n.— «Ask a group of people to name an overwhelming global problem, and you’ll hear about climate change, the Middle East, or AIDS. No one, it is guaranteed, will cite the sloppy transport of nurdles as a concern. And yet nurdles...
nurdle n.— «“No it’s not. Mine’s got a bigger nurdle.” “Yeah, but I bet it hasn’t got one of them new widgets”» —“Re: Amiga vs. Mac” by Julian Barkway Usenet: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Jan. 21...
nurdle n.— «I put down a nurdle (a precise measurement, somewhere between “a little” and “a skoshe”) of the green stuff, make a little crater in it and put in some Testors liquid cement.» —“Re: Plastic Model...
nurdle n.— «“What is the best method for laundering an internal frame pack (NF Badlands)?” “Mild soap in a bathtub full of warmish water. Fingernail brush on the stubborn nurdles. Air dry for a couple of days...
nurdle n.— «Within five feet of me the dog takes a huge dump, the kind that comes out like soft ice cream and lands in a piled up nurdle on the ground. The woman proceeds to start covering it with sand.» —“Dog(Doody)Day...