Talk:narg

RFV discussion
"[N]ot a real gentleman". Someone who talks shop outside of work. Sounds like nonsense to me. Mglovesfun (talk) 16:58, 8 December 2009 (UTC)


 * One use in Google Books: Equinox ◑ 18:59, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems to be Cambridge University slang, rather than general use. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:29, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted. —Ruakh TALK 16:17, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Computing sense
Narg and/or nargs seems to have some meaning in the computing (specifically, coding?) world, related to arg(s). - -sche (discuss) 23:51, 1 August 2011 (UTC)


 * nargs may be short for "number of arguments", but it seems a variable or parameter name, not an English word. Equinox ◑ 13:45, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Etymology
The etymology listed is in all likelihood a folk etymology, as these acronyms tend to be. Though I can't find a source to support it, and such a source may not exist, narg is probably simply an alteration of (itself notorious for folk-etymological backronyms) or  (a candidate for the source of nerd). — J&#8203;as&#8203;p&#8203;e&#8203;t 01:47, 10 February 2019 (UTC)