Ditz and Nerd

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Ditz noun - A silly flighty person.

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Nerd and ditz are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nerd" instead a noun "Ditz".

Nerd noun - A person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits.

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Ditz and nerd are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ditz" instead a noun "Nerd".

Simon of The Inbetweeners - he's the Straight Man to the Casanova Wannabe, The Ditz and the Nerd, but as the nerd is the narrator and central character, Simon can look a little zero-dimensional.

Source: The Generic Guy
In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Sam reveals to Flint that she was teased for being a nerd as a child, so she changed her look and hid her smarts behind a bubbly ditz personality.

Source: I Am What I Am
She's the quintessential techno-nerd and Genius Ditz, apparently a wizard at tactical problems with no particular care for the real world.

Source: Lets Get Dangerous / Literature

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