egghead

• In other words: By the time the USGS people got to the end of that paragraph, they themselves were so confused they just threw in the towel and reverted using gallons the same way a non-egghead would have. —  The Vail Trail - All Sections
• Speaking of Mullins, one egghead (not sure if it was a writer, radio play-by-play guy, SID or coach) actually gave him a first-place MVP vote. —  News from www.pantagraph.com
• Here in the egghead-y Bay Area, the SFFS Screen could have a hit on their hands with this one. —  The Evening Class
• Her brother would be a glasses-wearing egghead, constantly pointing out her faults, which is what he does already; you could make a lot of good tsukkomi and boke jokes based on his over-analytical nature when it comes to English, compared with her tendency to use English words freely without actually knowing what they mean. —  Anime Nano!
• Tagging an intellectual as an "egghead" or labeling a passionate partisan as a "nut case" is using an epithet, or mildly disparaging word. —  pshares blog

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