egghead
/ˈɛɡˌhɛd/
noun
- A person who is very intelligent and interested in academic or intellectual matters, sometimes used in a mildly teasing way.
- The professor was a bit of an egghead, always reading thick books.
- Some people called him an egghead because he loved math and science.
- The movie made fun of the eggheads in the research lab.
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