brainiac
[brey-nee-ak]Slang.
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noun
a highly intelligent person.
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Nearby words
- brained,
- brainerd,
- brainfag,
- brainfart,
- brainfood,
- brainish,
- brainless,
- brainlessly,
- brainpan,
- brainpower
Origin of brainiac
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Examples from the Web for brainiac
Except for maybe his brainiac wife… but she could do better anyway.
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brainiac
noun
Word Origin for brainiac
C20: from a super-intelligent character in an American comic strip
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brainiac
"very smart person," 1982, U.S. slang, from brain (n.) + ending from ENIAC, etc. Brainiac also was the name of a comic book villain in the Superman series and a do-it-yourself computer building kit, both from the late 1950s, and the word may bear traces of either or both of these.
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