ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun
1. : one with intellectual interests or pretensions : intellectual
can be considered an egghead himself (he boned up for covering the Korean war by reading Thucydides) — Newsweek
: highbrow
radio programming so sophisticated that it appeals only to eggheads
2. : a highly educated person
the know-nothing at the expense of the egghead — William Barrett
: theorist
a kind of McCarthy egghead not because he is liberal … but because he is the theoretician — Harvey Breit
was a creation of the longhairs, the do-gooders, the eggheads — Malcolm Cowley