0 a person, especially a man, who is very clever and interested only in studying and other mental activities
They are big brains, eggheads, all of them with their favorite gadgets.
It is of value not only for the interest and amusement of an ever-growing army of eggheads; it goes much further than that.
It is not as if it were a cranky scheme thought up by a lot of ultra-modern doctrinaire eggheads.
He said that he was fundamentally an egghead.
One of the difficulties is that even the eggheads are not agreed on how it should be done.
He said that he would not pay eggheads for telling him why the grass was green.
The trouble is that eggheads have a constitutional tendency to ally themselves with fatheads; and it does not really work out from the point of view of a good policy.
The word "egghead" was originally used without invidious associations, but quickly assumed them, and acquired a much sharper tone than the traditional "highbrow".
