egghead
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/ˈɛɡˌhɛd/
Definition of egghead
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(derogatory)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."”
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noun
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(derogatory)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."”
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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.”
“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.”
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(derogatory)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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From egg + head.
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