Penguin
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Defined in the dictionary as Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. I don't think you really want to be one of these.

The word itself is derived from Dr. Seuss's 1950 book If I Ran The Zoo
And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo
And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo,
A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!

In pre-InterNet land, a Nerd and a Geek were roughly the same thing. Today, a Geek is someone with a passion for technical pursuits (usually computer-related), while a Nerd is the stereotypical RPG-playing, smelly, social outcast.