Pronunciations
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/ˈɛɡˌhɛd/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
A bald person, especially a man.
Usage- Derogatory
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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.
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Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon."
A bald head.
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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.
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Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over.
His shoulders were so misshapen they almost met over his sunken chest and they were topped by a pointy egghead, bald but for a few short sproutings of hair.
An intellectual, especially one who is insensitive, pedantic, or out of touch.
Usage- Derogatory
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Just because some of you eggheads spend half your life in college don't mean you've got any monopoly on good common sense.
Noun
an intellectual; a very studious and academic person
- Broader terms
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in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead