Crossword clues for egghead
egghead
- Intellect Wren potentially manifested round house's east wing
- Urge schoolmaster's top student?
- Nerdy type
- "Batman" villain
- Humpty Dumpty as an intellectual?
- Smart cookie
- Intellectual, informally
- Yesterday's geek
- Very academic person
- Studious sort
- Pseudo-intellectual: Slang
- Intellectual geek
- Boffin or intellectual
- Anti-intellectual epithet
- "The Big Bang Theory" persona
- Highbrow
- Brainiac
- Cerebral one
- An intellectual (who is bald?)
- Longhair
- Walking encyclopedia
- Genius, Humpty Dumpty?
- Genius, good man inspired by old oath
- E for expert?
- Brainy type of English supervisor ferrying goods
- Boffin I don't understand tackles Germans over European bill
- Boffin for example, good man, a mastermind ultimately
- Boffin Bill after something composed of yellow and white, gas
- Intellectual encouraged absorbing sources of history and art, separately
- Intellectual whose brain might be scrambled?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also egg-head, 1907, "bald person," from egg (n.) + head (n.). Sense of "intellectual" is attested from 1918, among Chicago newspapermen; popularized by U.S. syndicated columnist Stewart Alsop in 1952 in reference to Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign.\n\nAdlai Stevenson once told what it was like to be the rare intellectual in politics. "Via ovicapitum dura est," he said, the way of the egghead is hard.
[New York Times, Oct. 28, 1982]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pejorative English) A bald person, especially a man. 2 (context pejorative English) An intellectual.
WordNet
n. an intellectual (who is bald?)
Wikipedia
In the American English slang, egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet used to refer to intellectuals or people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc. on account of their intellectual interests. It was part of a widespread anti-elitist social movement that insisted that credentialed intellectuals were not the only smart people, but that serious human intelligence could be found widespread among ordinary people regardless of class, race or gender.
A similar, though not necessarily pejorative, British term is boffin. The term egghead reached its peak currency during the 1950s, when vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon used it against Democratic Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. It was used by Clinton advisor Paul Begala in the 2008 presidential campaign to describe Senator Barack Obama's supporters when he said, "Obama can't win with just the eggheads and African-Americans."
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. He believes himself to be "the world's smartest criminal," and his crimes usually have an egg motif to them; he also includes egg-related puns in his speech ("egg-zactly", "egg-cellent", etc.). Additionally, he would use a wide assortment of egg-shaped weapons, such as laughing gas eggs and tear gas eggs (laid by chickens on a diet of onions).
Egghead is the name of two fictional villains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet.
Egghead may also refer to:
- Egghead (DC Comics)
- Egghead (Marvel Comics)
- Egghead (Looney Tunes)
- Egghead, Jr. (Looney Tunes)
- Eggheads (TV series), a British quiz show
- Egghead Software, a technology company based in Bellevue WA, USA
- Manolo the Egghead, a famous series of prank phone calls
- Eggheads, a series of public art sculptures by Robert Arneson
- "Eggheads", the eighth Sonic Boom (TV Series) episode
- "Eggheads" (Sliders), and episode of the TV show Sliders
Usage examples of "egghead".
I knew she had been spending her time lately with that egghead, Lieutenant Dyle, but I still wondered if she and Damon would hook up now that I was out of the picture.
All I could remember was the famous clip of the group of the Unarmoured meeting a phalanx of Armoured, the one where the Unarmoured with the egghead lifted his hand and the Armoured fell like dominoes.
Goddamn eggheads have probably all gone native or got wrapped up in their experiments.
The guilty eggheads, he said, should be charged with arson, murder, and treason and the maximum penalty assessed---if they are brought in alive.
There are a few others, some scientists, some laymen, but eggheads all.
The eggheads sealed themselves into shells, and they had to be broken out.
The eggheads are being scrapped now so that the components can be used for more valuable organisms.
It was a hard, bitter road he was about to walk, and everyone would line the road to stone him, eggheads and Lowbrows, scientists and laymen.
They say that the eggheads must die if the people are to live, and the eggheads will die.
We find bits and pieces of their solutions that survived the time of flames when the Lowbrows rebelled and ran the eggheads, and the time of starvation and time of troubles that followed when almost four billion men and women and children died of starvation and privation and violence.
World Space Complex that was designed by Professor Masterson and his eggheads to outline and delineate the various ifs of the Centaur projects.
A shitload of money to keep a handful of eggheads employed, if you ask me.
Any girl who could talk Kit Carson into training her to become the world's first woman time scout can handle mere journalists and eggheads.
Bechtol's offices are full of suntans and laser printers and razzle-dazzleand the employees look fabulouskiller eggheads who no doubt had chocolate cake and martinis for breakfast.