egghead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++egg·head /ˈeɡhed/ noun [countable] informal INTELLIGENTsomeone who is very intelligent, and only interested in ideas and books 学究；学问家
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egghead• You know, the egghead, absent-minded-professor types with bad haircuts and corduroy jackets with elbow patches.• Out goes the stereotype of the egghead with staring eyes trying to see through bottle-end glasses.• And school was never like this ... the egghead with a new slant on science.• It all began in 1981, when he was still a young egghead musician on the junior faculty at Yale University.• Stand your eggheads in egg-cups or make circles of paper collars to stand them on.egg·head nounChineseSyllable
someone ideas intelligent, is only Corpus in who very and and interested
egghead
egg‧head /ˈeɡhed/
noun [countable] informal
someone who is very intelligent, and only interested in ideas and books
egg‧head /ˈeɡhed/
noun [countable] informalsomeone who is very intelligent, and only interested in ideas and books