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- Dictionaryegg·head/ˈeɡˌ(h)ed/
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- 1. a person who is highly academic or studious; an intellectual: informal "the TV egghead who brought science to the masses"
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In U.S. English slang, egghead is an epithet used to refer to intellectuals or people considered out-of-touch with ordinary people and lacking in realism, common sense, sexual interests, etc. on account of their intellectual interests. A similar, though not necessarily pejorative, British term is boffin. The term egghead reached its peak currency during the 1950s, when vice-presidential candidate ... Wikipedia