ultranerdy T-shirt
- noun
- /ˌʌltrəˈnɜrdi ˈtiːˌʃɜrt/
- Slang
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camiseta ultranerd
- She wore an ultranerdy T-shirt covered in references to classic sci-fi movies.
Examples
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That ultranerdy T-shirt with a pixelated robot made everyone at the comic con smile.
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He bought an ultranerdy T-shirt featuring his favorite video game.
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His closet is filled with ultranerdy T-shirts displaying mathematical jokes and programming puns.
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I love wearing my ultranerdy T-shirt to conventions.
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His closet is filled with ultranerdy T-shirts displaying mathematical jokes and programming puns.
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She wore an ultranerdy T-shirt covered in references to classic sci-fi movies.
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That ultranerdy T-shirt with a pixelated robot made everyone at the comic con smile.
Synonyms
A casual shirt with pictures showing a love of games or comics
How Nerdy
- Slang
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Surface Forms
Morphology
ultranerdy + T-shirt
The phrase is fully compositional: 'ultra-' (extremely) + 'nerdy' (showing strong interest in nerd culture) modifies 'T-shirt' (a garment), so a learner who knows the parts can infer 'a T-shirt that is extremely nerdy.' This follows normal English intensifier + adjective + noun compounding patterns (and similar patterns cross-linguistically), making the meaning predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Ultranerdy T-shirt paints a simple picture: a T-shirt covered with pictures, jokes, or logos from video games, sci-fi, and computers, and the parts ultra and nerdy show it is more than casual fan gear. That's why it means a shirt that shows being 'very into' nerd culture.
