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ˈegg-headed, a.
[cf. headed a. 1 c.]
With a head shaped like an egg; also transf. (see prec.). So egg-ˈheadedness.
1919W. Deeping Second Youth iv. 37 A little egg-headed pedant. 1938Time 27 June 31/1 That man was starchy, six-foot-six Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, a dour, egg-headed, ascetical Aberdonian. 1957H. Croome Forgotten Place xiii. 163 Howard's own Old Intellectual tie had always been so conspicuous and Howard's views..so uncompromisingly egg-headed. 1959V. Packard Status Seekers (1960) xv. 216 The four factors thus far cited—money, ancestry, distance of home from center of the city, and eggheadedness. 1965Economist 10 July 154/1 More eggheaded discussion of these matters brings in the concepts of ‘social rates of discount’ and a ‘shadow price’ for capital. Ibid. 25 Sept. 1226/1 The Department of Economic Affairs was at pains..to underplay economic eggheadedness. |