egghead

Noun

Meaning

an intellectual; a very studious and academic person

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Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. Michelle Malkin

in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead Source: Internet

After hitting a button that destroyed the Wolverine clones, Reptil and Firestar helped Wolverine in defeating Egghead. Source: Internet

But his impassioned egghead advisers have made his campaign seem not only out of his control, but effete and vaguely foreign -- the same unflattering light that doomed Michael Dukakis and John Kerry. Source: Internet

Ben Sasse's Plan to Save the Senate - The Atlantic Can Washington's Most Interesting Egghead Save the Senate? Source: Internet

Interestingly, the derisive anti-intellectual moniker “egghead” was turned on its head and used as a badge of honor by Barry Goldwater’s supporters in the 1964 presidential campaign. Source: Internet

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