egghead
pronunciation
How to pronounce egghead in British English:
UK [ˈeghed]
How to pronounce egghead in American English:
US [ˈɛɡˌhɛd]
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- Noun:
- an intellectual (who is bald?)
Word Origin
- egghead (n.)
- also egg-head, 1907, "bald person," from egg (n.) + head (n.). Sense of "intellectual" is attested from 1918, among Chicago newspapermen; popularized by U.S. syndicated columnist Stewart Alsop in 1952 in reference to Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign. Adlai Stevenson once told what it was like to be the rare intellectual in politics. "Via ovicapitum dura est," he said, the way of the egghead is hard. [New York Times, Oct. 28, 1982]
Example
- 1. I 'm tired of listening to that egghead .
- 2. She loves him only because he is an egghead .
- 3. Leiniao is an attentive experimental home , is not egghead .
- 4. You are a real egghead .
- 5. Mr reed is an egghead , he can 't do anything .