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UK
/ˈɛɡhɛd/
]
[ 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
- Now, the forecaster is the egghead of the newsroom. NYT > Home Page
- I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed.
- Dex was an egghead, not a stallion, and he was bound to be a dud. LADY BE GOOD
- His new, meticulously researched history scopes out the role eggheads have played at the White House since 1960.
- It all began in 1981, when he was still a young egghead musician on the junior faculty at Yale University.
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears in a game called Egg Attack, launched by a Swiss multimedia company Cultimedia as an "egghead" target (see photo).
- So higher education eggheads, take a stroll, whistle a few bars of gaudeamus igitur, and we'll be back with you in a mo. Crib sheet 20.07.10
- So higher education eggheads, take a stroll, whistle a few bars of gaudeamus igitur, and we'll be back with you in a mo. Crib sheet 20.07.10
- The eggheads in intelligence dropped the ball, but the warrior types are ready to make up for it.
- As researchers show how the two diseases are very much alike, I'm waiting with bated breath to see what kind of biological differences, if any, these eggheads might find.