egg-headedadj.
With a head shaped like an egg; also transferred (see egghead n.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [adjective]
intellectual1732
bluestocking1832
long-haired1842
intellectualist1857
high-browed1876
highbrow1884
intellectualistic1887
minority1930
egg-headed1957
eggheadish1963
1919 W. Deeping Second Youth iv. 37 A little egg-headed pedant.
1938 Time 27 June 31/1 That man was starchy, six-foot-six Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, a dour, egg-headed, ascetical Aberdonian.
1957 H. Croome Forgotten Place xiii. 163 Howard's own Old Intellectual tie had always been so conspicuous and Howard's views..so uncompromisingly egg-headed.
1965 Economist 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.
Derivatives
egg-ˈheadedness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > intellectual matters > devotion to
intellectualism1800
bluestockingism1812
blue1824
cerebralism1881
eggheadism1956
egg-headedness1959
eggheadery1962
1959 V. Packard Status Seekers (1960) xv. 216 The four factors thus far cited—money, ancestry, distance of home from center of the city, and eggheadedness.
1965 Economist 25 Sept. 1226/1 The Department of Economic Affairs was at pains..to underplay economic eggheadedness.
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adj.1919