Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Befitting or having the qualities of an intellectual.
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- adjective derogatory, informal
intellectual
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another phenomenon known as deindividuation, which is an eggheaded way of saying whether someone feels anonymous or not, can even reverse sex differences.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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Give me the dark side of HSAs all the good liberals eggheaded up!
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Another phenomenon known as deindividuation, which is an eggheaded way of saying whether someone feels anonymous or not, can even reverse sex differences.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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So, the tea party racist average joes are also eggheaded elitists? judd says:
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As long as we're hoping names like Donatich will sweep the country with sheer eggheaded force, we will be disappointed -- not because intellectuals aren't smart, or because Americans don't hunger for intellectual richness, but because that conversation doesn't include enough.
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As long as we're hoping names like Donatich will sweep the country with sheer eggheaded force, we will be disappointed -- not because intellectuals aren't smart, or because Americans don't hunger for intellectual richness, but because that conversation doesn't include enough.
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I wish them the best; IOW, I hope they last long enough to raise a household of very progressive, liberal, eggheaded brats who will plague them mercilessly.
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If he were white, we'd be getting the elitistist eggheaded ivory tower in-tee-lect-shul who never did an honest days work in his life smear, the corrupt Chicago politician smear and, possibly, the inexperience smear.
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A bald guy who was regularly described as an eggheaded intellectual could win the Democratic nomination, twice.
Christopher Bonanos: The American Heritage of American Heritage 2008
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It may be that this temperamental strength will soon look like a weakness, that Obama's calm assurance will look, this fall, like eggheaded wimpiness when set beside John McCain's bombs-away instincts, his courage in Vietnam in the 1970s, and his military salute.
Stephen Burt: Obama on Fox: the Medium, and the Message 2008
mollusque commented on the word eggheaded
The eggheaded clerk separated me from two dollars without even looking at me.
--Raymond Chandler, 1943, The Lady in the Lake, chapter 13
September 4, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word eggheaded
You know who was really eggheaded? In the sense that his head was really shaped like an egg? The Marquis de Lafayette. No kidding.
September 4, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word eggheaded
Perhaps it was shaped like an eggplant? oh burr grin (aubergine)!
September 4, 2009
reesetee commented on the word eggheaded
Chained, did you know the Marquis?
September 7, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word eggheaded
Well... I don't like to brag...
September 7, 2009