Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An intellectual.
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Examples
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Perhaps some other marketing pointy-head is working in a lab on grape-flavoured candyfloss?
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I do think one of the ironies of the past two or three weeks is this idea that Michelle and I are elitist, intellectual pointy-head types.
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The hook for Eric is the eyes and the pointy-head.
An interview with Shaun Tan « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2009
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This thing is narrated by a young-sounding pointy-head, the music track for the first half sounds like a cereal commercial (or an anti-depressant ad).
McCain Camp Rolls Out Brutal New Attack Ad On Foreign Policy 2009
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And at the same time, the cretins also want "an non-elitist with biography! suffering! and none of them thar books littering their house on stupid stuff like Dingle-Norwood or pointy-head academic tomes on energy economics or Chinese policy."
Let's think about the man America rejected because he was Mormon or seemed plastic or whatever. Ann Althouse 2008
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He somehow got it into his pointy-head that lack of diversity is good for diversity.
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Is this just theory, the pontification of a pointy-head academic?
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Politicans routinely sell themselves as "a man (or woman) of the people," not some pointy-head intellectual in an ivory tower.
August 2006 2006
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I think it mirrors some of the preconceived notions influential Canadians in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal pointy-head corridor hold about their soldiers.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Toles realy loves the pointy-head look for his characters.
Caricaturing Obama. Ann Althouse 2007
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