nardo

This refers to to bourgeois tendency in modern life. It is at once
derogatory and a term of compassionate endearment. The key to
this term is "it takes one to know one." Just about everyone with a
color TV, a full time job, a credit card or money in the bank is to
one degree or another a nardo. True radicals, derelicts, primitives
or outsiders might not be nardos but they do not have the right to
call others nardo if this is the case. This is a very important point
and the true fascination and significance of the nardo concept. A
person can berate or kid others about being nardos, but in the very
act of doing so he/she is by definition admitting that the same is
true of him/her.
The primary usage and form of the word is as a noun. In addition to
its primary definition as a type or class of person, there is also a
second definition which is an appelation (How are you doing,
nardo?) The concept also has an adjective form: nardy.