egghead
/ˈɛɡˌhɛd/
egghead noun: a bald person, especially a man.
Noun
egghead (plural eggheads)
- A bald person, especially a man.
- Then no one will know whether you are a genuine egghead or not. Besides, completely bald men are more sensual.1993, Richard Sandomir, The Joy of Baldness: Men with less hair — and the women who love them, page 164
- His own image as a bald man - egghead - with glasses aids this perception.2005, Clare O'Farrell, Michel Foucault, page 1
- A bald head.
- But at the top of the "egghead", the blood vessels become pinched and the flow is blocked.1962, The Pakistan Review - Volume 10, page Page 43
- At one point he even lifts his cap to reveal an egghead bald-cap atop white hair and spectacles.2002, Robert Ross, The Complete Terry Thomas, page 87
- An intellectual, especially one who is insensitive, pedantic, or out of touch.
- Just because some of you eggheads spend half your life in college don't mean you've got any monopoly on good common sense.1963, Guy McCord [pseudonym; Mack Reynolds], The Common Man
- Synonyms:
- boffin, brainiac, brain, bright spark, geek, nerd, Poindexter, propeller head, shrewd article, smart cookie
egghead meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
egghead in Tamil
- அறிவாளி, அறிவுஜீவி, அறிஞர்
egghead in Bengali
- pejorative: bald person
- টেঁকো, টাঁক, টাঁকমাথা ṭẽkō, ṭãk, ṭãkmatha
- pejorative: intellectual
- আঁতেল ãtel
egghead in Malayalam
- intellectual, thinker, academic
- ധിഷണാശാലി, ബുദ്ധിജീവി, ബുദ്ധിശാലി, പടുമതി, സുമേധസ്സ്, ബുദ്ധിമാൻ
egghead in Kannada
- ವ್ಯವಹಾರ ತಿಳಿಯದ ವಿದ್ವಾಂಸ, ಒಣ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತಿ
Examples of egghead in a sentence
- Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon."2018, Balázs Apor, The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956, page 52:
- Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over.2010, Jena Pincott, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?:, page 81:
- His shoulders were so misshapen they almost met over his sunken chest and they were topped by a pointy egghead, bald but for a few short sproutings of hair.2015, Christopher Rush, Penelope's Web:
Synonyms of egghead
- boffin
- brainiac
- brain
- bright spark
- geek
- nerd
- Poindexter
- propeller head
- shrewd article
- smart cookie
Forms of egghead
| plural | eggheads |
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Origin of egghead
From egg + head.
Words formed from egghead
Questions about egghead
- What does egghead mean?
- Egghead means a bald person, especially a man.
- What is egghead in Tamil?
- Egghead in Tamil is அறிவாளி, அறிவுஜீவி, அறிஞர். See Egghead meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use egghead in a sentence?
- Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon."
- What part of speech is egghead?
- Egghead is a noun.
- How do you pronounce egghead?
- Egghead is pronounced /ˈɛɡˌhɛd/ (US).
- What is the plural of egghead?
- The plural of egghead is eggheads.
Words near egghead in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: egghead (page history and authors); egghead (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); egghead (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); egghead (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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