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UK
/ˈɛɡhɛd/
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[ US /ˈɛɡˌhɛd/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɡˌhɛd/ ]
NOUN
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an intellectual; a very studious and academic person
in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead
How To Use egghead In A Sentence
- You don't have to be an egghead to read philosophy, you can even read it on the conveyer belt at your local gym, thus combining your physical and intellectual work-outs and saving valuable time.
- If I write about that, I'll sound like an egghead.
- Obama is prone to the same (disastrous) eggheadedness as Kerry was. Obama Camp, Getting Down To Business, Slams Hillary On Tax Returns
- If he were white, we'd be getting the elitistist eggheaded ivory tower in-tee-lect-shul who never did an honest days work in his life smear, the corrupt Chicago politician smear and, possibly, the inexperience smear. Counting The White Women In McCain's "Hot Chicks" Ad
- You'll recall, a few years back, how a pair of eggheads at the University of Utah announced that they'd effected cold fusion on a table top.
- Once academic exercises for eggheads, college business-plan contests now offer competitors the chance to win sizeable chunks of cash and launch a business.
- It all began in 1981, when he was still a young egghead musician on the junior faculty at Yale University.
- You know, the egghead, absent-minded-professor types with bad haircuts and corduroy jackets with elbow patches.
- More on Minnesota's Angry Humorist: The New York Post's Page Six column calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it.
- If you think copyright issues don't concern you and that a five-day intensive course focusing on the protection and enforcement of patents and trademarks is strictly the domain of eggheads, well, you might actually be right.