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A nerd? (From a fellow nerd)

Germans - this is addressed to you.

in German: "Verlegen" definition: "Peinlich berührt, beschämt, aber auch stolz oder erfreut"

Not to be confused with "verlegen" used as verb, which has like 3 different meanings of its own.

Proudbarrassed.

Humblebrag

in usa they call it as "humbled" like anywhere from "I'm humbled to receive this nobel prize" to "I'm humbled to get gold star employee of the month at arby's" or "I'm humbled to see so many in the audience tonight."

Also the act of raising a point only to be self humbled by it in this manner is 'humblebrag' like if you say "I was so embarrassed I got full points on math section of GRE does it mean I'm a nerd" or "I'm so bad at verbal I missed one question on GRE verbal section does it mean I'm really not an empath after all?"