word nerd
English
Noun
word nerd (plural word nerds)
- A person who is very fond of and knowledgeable about words, their uses, origins and histories, and who typically excels at anagrams, crosswords, and other word games.
- 1994, Joe Edley, Everything Scrabble:
- There was no denying it: After years of being on the fringes of the national SCRABBLE® scene, I had become a bona fide “word nerd.”
- 1996, San Diego Magazine, volume 49, page 30:
- This admitted word nerd has dug deeply into dusty dictionaries[.]
- 1997, MacUser, volume 13, page 148, column 3:
- If you're a true word nerd and the definitions you get from an average dictionary just aren't satisfying, then what you need is the Oxford English Dictionary[.]
- 2018, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Crime & Punctuation:
- “Is that some word nerd thing?” I chuckled. “You would not believe how much controversy there is over something as simple as whether or not to put a comma before the word 'and' at the end of a list.”