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How to pronounce egghead in English?

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Type of intellect, intellectual


in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead.

Examples of egghead

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Not a certified egghead but I'm guessing he finds this useful to use in CatScan.
From the en.wikipedia.org
On the spectrum of golf instruction, Foley belongs at the egghead, theoretical end.
From the orlandosentinel.com
One of them is a left-leaning egghead, a philosophic and persuasive speaker.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Well, someone's finally boning up on the place, not some egghead think tank.
From the forbes.com
He was simply trying to put an egghead gloss on his Humpty Dumpty mishegoss.
From the nytimes.com
Americans wanted the warrior, not the egghead, and Ike won by a landslide.
From the washingtontimes.com
At last, my egghead friends and I had a hero we could hold up to the jocks around us.
From the al.com
Egghead after egghead took to the stage to pronounce how dismal our economic outlook is.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Albert Einstein plays matchmaker for his egghead niece and an unschooled auto mechanic.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • An intellectual; a very studious and academic person; "in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead"
  • In the slang of the United States, egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet, directed at people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc. on account of their intellectual interests. The British equivalent is boffin. ...
  • Egghead is a fictional character created for the 1960s Batman television series. Played by horror film mainstay Vincent Price, the character was identifiable by his pale bald head and white and yellow suit. ...
  • Egghead is the name of two fictional Marvel Comics villains. The original first appeared in Tales to Astonish #38. He is also the arch-nemesis of super-hero Henry Pym. The second first appeared in Dark Reign: Young Avengers #1
  • Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters, and the de facto archenemy of Bugs Bunny. He has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs himself). ...
  • (Eggheads (Sliders)) The following is a list of episodes for the Fox and Sci Fi Channel original series, Sliders. The series aired on Fox from March 1995 to May 1997 and on the Sci Fi Channel from June 1998 to February 2000. A total of 88 episodes were produced.
  • (Eggheads (uk-tv-series)) Eggheads is a BBC quiz show created by 12-Yard Productions, first broadcast in 2003, and presented by Dermot Murnaghan. For the 2008 series, Jeremy Vine was brought in to present on nights when Murnaghan was hosting the spinoff series Are You an Egghead?. ...
  • A bald person, especially a man; An intellectual
  • What I think a neighbor is when he says my birds keep him up at night crowing.