Egghead

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Egghead

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also egg-head, 1907, “bald person,” from egg; this term is also a noun. + head; this term is also a noun. 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. Adlai 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]