egghead

noun
/ˈɛɡˌhɛd/US

Etymology

From egg + head.

  1. inherited from *káput — “head
  2. inherited from *haubudą — “head
  3. inherited from *haubud
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as egghead — “egg + head

Definitions

  1. A bald person, especially a man.

    • Then no one will know whether you are a genuine egghead or not. Besides, completely bald men are more sensual.
    • His own image as a bald man - egghead - with glasses aids this perception.
    • Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon."
  2. A bald head.

    • But at the top of the "egghead", the blood vessels become pinched and the flow is blocked.
    • At one point he even lifts his cap to reveal an egghead bald-cap atop white hair and spectacles.
    • Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over.
  3. An intellectual, especially one who is insensitive, pedantic, or out of touch.

    • Just because some of you eggheads spend half your life in college don't mean you've got any monopoly on good common sense.

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Derived

eggheadery

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for egghead. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA