brainiac

brain·i·ac

[brey-nee-ak] Slang.
noun
a highly intelligent person.

Origin:
from Brainiac, a superintelligent, villainous alien in the Superman comics, probably brain + (man)iac

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brainiac (ˈbreɪnɪˌæk) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
informal a highly intelligent person
 
[C20: from a super-intelligent character in an American comic strip]

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Brainiac is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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brainiac
"very smart person," 1980s U.S. slang, from brain + ending from ENIAC, etc. Brainiac also was the name of a comic book villain in the Superman series and a do-it-yourself computer building kit, both from the late 1950s, and the word may bear traces of either or both of these.
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