egghead
noun
an intellectual.
eggheads
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pluralof egghead.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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What's a megastar to do when she has defined an entire summer, produced a multi-million-selling album and even persuaded the dictionary eggheads to declare "brat" a word of the year?
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Which is a reminder even to the eggheads that no one has ever won the Ryder Cup on a spreadsheet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025
Gone were the fluffy perms that are the definers of K-pop stardom - here instead were "eggheads", anonymised buzzcuts of soldiers on the frontline.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2023
Levitan calls the phrase “a bit of down-home hucksterism designed to marginalize those eggheads over there who actually are scientists as somehow out of touch or silly.”
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2018
And—most remarkable— the attention came from all kinds of kids: shy mice and princesses, jocks and eggheads.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
