nerdy glasses

5.3

Thick-rimmed or large frames that make someone look like a geek

noun

: gafas nerd

With her hair in a bun and nerdy glasses, she resembled a classic bookworm.

Examples

His nerdy glasses gave him a charmingly quirky look during the interview.
She bought a new pair of nerdy glasses to match her vintage outfits.
She wore nerdy glasses that made her look smart.
Do you like my new nerdy glasses?
His nerdy glasses gave him a charmingly quirky look during the interview.
With her hair in a bun and nerdy glasses, she resembled a classic bookworm.
She bought a new pair of nerdy glasses to match her vintage outfits.

Synonyms

dweeby glasses

vsnerdy glasses

Offensive

8.8

A pair of large, old-fashioned glasses that make a person look awkward or nerdy

are associated with an intellectual appearance rather than mere awkwardness

How Thin

rimless

2 3.6

Windsor eyeglasses

Archaic

7.7

nerdy glasses

5.3

Surface Forms

nerdy glasses singular

nerdy glasses plural

Morphology

nerdy + glasses

This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'nerdy' (geeky/intellectual) and 'glasses' can infer it refers to glasses that give a nerdy appearance. The meaning is directly built from the constituents and follows a common cross-linguistic adjectival modification pattern, so it is immediately understandable without prior exposure.

Etymology

Nerdy glasses comes from the old picture of people who read a lot wearing large, thick glasses that made them look shy and very into books—nerdy. So today nerdy glasses means a pair of glasses that give a 'geeky' or clever look.