Como se dice "nerd" en español

[Satyr]

How would you translate nerd into Spanish?

[Tomisimo]

En México, he escuchado algunos usar la misma palabra nerd.

[Rusty]

En Argentina, se usa nerd o traga.
Sos un nerd.
Sos un traga. (Éste porque se traga libros.)

[Satyr]

rusty knows everything

[CrOtALiTo]

I also say Nerd.

I don't meet another word or you same can to use smart.

[Tomisimo]

Here you go. From wikipedia: (Crotalito- checa la palabra que según usan en Paraguay )

• Argentina y Uruguay: traga, nerd, geek.
• Bolivia: "cabeza" un termino poco utilizado y "corcho" denominativo que se le da a las personas que sacan excelentes calificaciones o simplemente tienen conocimiento de algo.
• Chile: ñoño, nerd, nerdy, mateo, friki, perno.
• Colombia: pilo, pepa, nerd, ratón de biblioteca.
• Costa Rica: verde, nerdo, lelo, sapo.
• Cuba: tostao, quemao, filtro, taco, escapao, volao.
• Ecuador: cerebrito, afanoso.
• El Salvador: Nerd, Soso, Ñoño.
• España: empollón, friki (vulgarismo derivado del anglicismo "freak" o "freaky", cuyo significado es 'extraño'), cerebrito.
• México: cerebrito, matado, ratón de biblioteca, ñoño, inteligente pero debilucho, nerd, geek, teto.
• Paraguay: bocho, nerd.
• Perú: ganso,mongolón, chancón (éste, socialmente es regular o bueno).
• Puerto Rico: estofón, comelibros.
• Venezuela: coco, taco, cráneo, cerebrito, nerdo, huevo, friki.

[Planet hopper]

I would pick out the word friki for this side of the puddle, which is very new, just a few years old. Nerd is not getting through, at least right now. A friki is also someone zany, a weirdo, not only a computer friki.

Example: the guy who went to the last eurovision contest for spain.

[Pixter]

Rusty, I agree with you, I also say "Come libros" - traga libros jajajaja

Tambien usamos "Raton de biblioteca" - queriendo decir que esa persona practicamente vive en las bibliotecas leyendo y estudiando, although....nowdays with the internet who has the time to go to a library???

[CrOtALiTo]

Noone, nowadays all the things are in the internet, you don't need anymore the library.

[Planet hopper]

Come on, guys...Libraries are so romantic

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by Planet hopper

Come on, guys...Libraries are so romantic

Plus I like libraries.

[Elaina]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

Plus I like libraries.

So as they say in that song......I was looking for love in all the wrong places...

[brenfro]

Someone in my Spanish class said that they heard someone call a nerd, "miguelito". Has anyone else heard this expression?

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, I also heard that expression in the school.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Yes, I also heard that expression in the school.

No había escuchado eso antes. ¿Le llaman miguelito a las personas en lugar de decirles nerd, aún cuando no se llamen miguel?