英语词汇“egghead”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

An egghead is a smart, nerdy person. You might call your studious older brother, who always seems to have a book in his hand, an egghead.

The word egghead is a very informal, slightly insulting name for an intellectual. College libraries are full of eggheads, academics who are researching and writing and thinking about their scholarly pursuits. The word originally meant "bald person," but it came to mean "smart person" in Chicago-area slang, particularly among newspaper reporters around 1918.

WORD FAMILY

egghead: eggheads

USAGE EXAMPLES

There is an echo here of intellectuals’ reaction to the defeat of Adlai Stevenson, the liberal “egghead” candidate, in 1952.

Slate(Dec 06, 2016)

While university professors might be scorned as condescending eggheads, book smarts are prized when used against the bookish.

New York Times(Nov 13, 2016)

That he’d fight for them in their battle against the preppy eggheads who run the government, the financial system, and the media.

Slate(Nov 11, 2016)

n an intellectual; a very studious and academic person

in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead

Hyper

intellect, intellectual

a person who uses the mind creatively

单词	egghead
释义	egghead (once / 30700 pages) n An egghead is a smart, nerdy person. You might call your studious older brother, who always seems to have a book in his hand, an egghead. The word egghead is a very informal, slightly insulting name for an intellectual. College libraries are full of eggheads, academics who are researching and writing and thinking about their scholarly pursuits. The word originally meant "bald person," but it came to mean "smart person" in Chicago-area slang, particularly among newspaper reporters around 1918. WORD FAMILY egghead: eggheads USAGE EXAMPLES There is an echo here of intellectuals’ reaction to the defeat of Adlai Stevenson, the liberal “egghead” candidate, in 1952. Slate(Dec 06, 2016) While university professors might be scorned as condescending eggheads, book smarts are prized when used against the bookish. New York Times(Nov 13, 2016) That he’d fight for them in their battle against the preppy eggheads who run the government, the financial system, and the media. Slate(Nov 11, 2016) n an intellectual; a very studious and academic person in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead Hyper intellect, intellectual a person who uses the mind creatively
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