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egg⋅head

  [eg-hed]
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–noun Informal: Often Disparaging.
an intellectual.
Origin:
1915–20; egg 1 + head
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egg·head   (ěg'hěd')   
n.   Informal
An intellectual; a highbrow.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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egghead

  1. n.
    an intellectual person. : The eggheads aren't exactly taking over the world.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

egghead 
1907, "bald person," from egg (n.) + head. Sense of "intellectual" is attested from 1918, among Chicago newspapermen; popularized by U.S. syndicated columnist Stewart Alsop in 1952 in ref. to Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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