egghead

He is often teased for being an egghead.

She is a brilliant egghead with a PhD in physics.

The egghead scientist made a groundbreaking discovery.

The university library is a favorite spot for eggheads.

The panel discussion was dominated by eggheads from various fields.

The company hired an egghead consultant to improve their strategies.

The team of egghead engineers worked tirelessly to solve the problem.

The politician was criticized for being an egghead and out of touch with the common people.

The professor is known for being an egghead but also a great communicator.

The technology conference attracted many eggheads from around the world.

Now you're a regular whiz kid, an egghead.

If you're particularly smart —— an eggspert in your chosen field perhaps —— you might be called an 'egghead'.

But you don't have to be an egghead to follow a discussion.

And then they say, " Oh, so you want the surgery." - Slow down, egghead.

All three of you were just big old eggheads.

" Only with the eggheads, " Lonnie Morgan said, " and they already had his number. I meant what about you" ?

Lately, this ultra-commutable egghead enclave has stolen the crown from London's other wannabe tech hub, a grimy junction above Old Street underground cynically nicknamed 'silicon roundabout'.

Adlai Stevenson was known as an intellectual -- an " egghead." He dismissed some traditional political advisers and replaced them with fellow " eggheads" when he launched his campaign.

Language has been enriched with such terms as 'highbrow', 'egghead', 'blue-stocking', 'wiseacre', 'know-all', 'boffin' and, for many, 'intellectual' is a term of denigration.