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egghead
noun- an intellectual, often a scientist; a very smart person US, 1918
- — American Speech, December 1957
- Most frightening of all is the fact that American education is controlled by females and eunuchs–eggheads. — Lee Mortimer, Women Confidential, p. 94, 1960
- “Sure, Stew,” he said, “all the eggheads are for Stevenson. But how many eggheads are there?” — Saturday Evening Post, p. 30, 8 September 1962
- In high school, I was an egghead who wrote poems. — Malcolm Boyd, My Fellow Americans, p. 144, 1970
- The “eggheads” and there were a few, had an uphill struggle. — Odie Hawkins, Scars and Memories, p. 159, 1987
- [Billy the Kid addressing Freud] Way to go, egghead. — Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, p. 85, 1989
- [A] Singaporean government minister, known as a bit of an egghead, got up to make a rousing speech. — The Guardian, 10 December 2002
- a bald person US, 1907
- As for his head? It was completely bald. Clean shaven. A total egghead. — Vincent Zandri, Godchild, p. 249, 2000
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