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egghead
/ˈɛɡˌhɛd/
noun 3
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3ADJ.
bald, bald, genuine
EGGHEAD + NOUN
-, glasses
PREP.
besides, with
Definitions
noun
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.
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.
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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Then no one will know whether you are a genuine egghead or not. Besides, completely bald men are more sensual.
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His own image as a bald man - egghead - with glasses aids this perception.
Wiktionary03
Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon."
Wiktionary04
Tom is an egghead.
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