pointy-headed
adjective North American informal, chiefly derogatory
Expert; intellectual: some pointy-headed college professor...
- I fear real life jurors would respond to such an argument by dismissing it as bookish, the stuff of pointy-headed intellectuals.
- Like jocks, the policymakers laugh at the pointy-headed intellectuals who think they know how to draft good laws and negotiate with foreign governments.
- Score one for real people against the pointy-headed atheistic intellectuals (who have apparently declared war on the rest of us).
Derivatives
pointy-head
- I never said the pointy heads should run things.
- The Hutchins boys could be dismissed by journalists as a pack of pointy heads, intellectuals detached from the ethos of working stiffs.
- It's not all doom and gloom on Ireland's property market from the pointy heads at international accountants.
Origin
By association with egghead.