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
“We had some real eggheads, and famously, they don’t watch comedy. Then you trample all over their favorite topic” and things can get tense, she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
It’s high time that a prominent nonlawyer take a turn at this critique of the Roberts court, and it’s clear that Walz may succeed where all of us polite eggheads have failed.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024
I’ve heard us called egglets—children of the eggheads.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
