Word "EGGHEAD" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
an intellectual; a very studious and academic person
Examples:
in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead

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Source of intelligence, say, Government picked up, discounting Russia's leader
Intellectual The Telegraph Quick 10 Jun 2025
Colloquial word for a genius?
Brainiac, cerebral one (EDGE HAG anagram) (7)
Intellectual, possibly hard boiled leader
Intellectual guy's first stuck in a hedge oddly (7)
Noted horse for a master intellectual (7)
Intellectual person Mirror Classic 29 Apr 2025
Urge principal to become an intellectual
Brainiac (coll) (7)
For example, good leader will be intellectual (7)
Intellectual The Telegraph Quick 10 Mar 2025
Crack quizzer? The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 28 Feb 2025
Boffin or intellectual
Boffin The Times Concise 21 Feb 2025
Food that's cracked along with nut for academic The Telegraph Toughie 18 Feb 2025
Villain played by Vincent Price in 1960s US television series Batman Mirror Quiz 12 Feb 2025
Intellectual's urge to lead (7) Puzzler Cryptic 23 Jan 2025
Intellectual or studious person Mirror Classic 11 Jan 2025
Dated colloquial term for a person regarded as intelligent or highbrow (7)
Intellectual The Telegraph Quick 21 Dec 2024
Highly intellectual person (7)
Intellectual Mirror Classic 07 Aug 2024
Boffin The Telegraph Quick 02 Aug 2024
Studious and bright person (7)
Intellectual Mirror Tea Time 23 Jul 2024
Urge the boss to be an intellectual (7)
Channel 5 quiz boffin?
Colloquial term for a person regarded as intelligent or highbrow (7)
Studious, academic person (colloq) (7)
Urge the master to be highbrow (7)
Clever person The Telegraph Quick 24 May 2024
Boffin whose brain might be scrambled? The Sun Two Speed 13 May 2024
Intellectual The Sun Two Speed 13 May 2024
Clever person, informally (7)
Does he bear the yolk on his shoulders? (7)
What might a very studious and academic person be called? (7)
Urge educational leader to become intellectual (7)
A brainy type, like Humpty-Dumpty?
Say 'Goodness!' to a boffin
Boffin who looks like he's been laid on top? (7)
Urge principal to be a boffin (7)
Urge the boss to become an intellectual (7)
Intellectual Mirror Tea Time 28 Mar 2024
Boffin's formula for e?
Epithet like "Einstein"
Very academic person (7)
One clever enough to be boss at the Oval? (7)
Brainiac Eugene Sheffer 21 Feb 2024
Intellectual Mirror Classic 21 Feb 2024
Encourage leading boffin (7)
Intellectual, informally (7)
Intellectual The Sun Two Speed 31 Jan 2024
One likely to have some cracking thoughts? The Sun Two Speed 31 Jan 2024
Brainy-sounding "Batman" villain
Intellectual type (coll) (7)
Villain played by Vincent Price in 1960s US television series Batman Mirror Quiz 17 Dec 2023
Brainbox The Telegraph Quick 29 Nov 2023
Ivory tower sort New York Times 24 Nov 2023
Intellectual urge by bloke to get promotion The Times Cryptic 24 Aug 2023
Intellectual, say, and good leader The Times Cryptic 10 Aug 2023
E-genius? The Guardian Quiptic 07 Aug 2023
Intellectual English master inspiring good grades at first The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Jul 2023
Boffin The Times Concise 26 Jun 2023
For one Guardian leader on top teacher, it's intellectual The Guardian Cryptic 13 Jun 2023
Intellectual urge picked up with professor finally leaving The Times Cryptic 22 May 2023
Boffin, for example, good leader The Telegraph Cryptic 13 Feb 2023
Oval-shaped intellectual Irish Times Simplex 09 Jun 2022
Intellectual (informal) The Guardian Quick 15 Apr 2022
Intellectual The Times Concise 28 Mar 2022
Brainiac Thomas Joseph 03 Jan 2022
Intellectual The Telegraph Quick 20 Nov 2021
Knife cut drawn up over ambassador's brain
Intellectual The Telegraph Quick 26 Aug 2021
Boffin The Telegraph Quick 16 Jul 2021
Breakfast food boss offers Einstein The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Jun 2021
One with addled mind eventually? The Sun Two Speed 13 Jun 2021
Intellectual, say, with permission to proceed, ignoring old article The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jun 2021
Brainy chap giving you an E?
Intellectual The Times Concise 06 May 2021
Intellectual The Telegraph Quick 19 Feb 2021
Boffin whose brain might be scrambled? The Sun Two Speed 02 Feb 2021
Intellectual The Sun Two Speed 02 Feb 2021
Intellectual like Humpty Dumpty?
Intellect Wren potentially manifested round house's east wing
Intellectual The Guardian Speedy 11 Oct 2020
Scholar say good with teacher The Sun Two Speed 27 Sep 2020
Boffin The Sun Two Speed 27 Sep 2020
Brainiac Eugene Sheffer 25 Sep 2020
. Genius, good man inspired by old oath
One inventing the omelette? The Sun Two Speed 16 Jul 2020
Is one troubled by cracking thoughts? The Sun Two Speed 30 May 2020
E for expert?
Cracking thoughts to trouble such a boffin? The Sun Two Speed 25 Apr 2020
Intellectual (informal) The Sun Two Speed 25 Apr 2020
Brainiac Newsday 12 Apr 2020
Wise man, for example, lays on good loaf The Telegraph Toughie 25 Dec 2019
Ovoid-shaped intellectual Irish Times Simplex 07 Dec 2019
Boffin having scrambled thoughts? The Sun Two Speed 01 Oct 2019
Such as aged gathered about husband that's a know-all The Telegraph Toughie 04 Sep 2019
Brainy type of English supervisor ferrying goods
One likely to have some cracking thoughts?
Boffin whose brains might be scrambled? The Telegraph Cryptic 21 May 2019
Intellectual, one getting repeatedly stabbed by soldiers?
Encourage teacher and scholar The Sun Two Speed 21 Nov 2018
For example, leader of group, chief boffin The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Sep 2018
Boffin The Telegraph Quick 24 Sep 2018
An intellectual The Telegraph Quick 11 Sep 2018
Brainbox with cracking ideas? The Sun Two Speed 27 Aug 2018
Intellectual dispute raged as to whether this was big or little end The Telegraph Toughie 18 Jul 2018
Encourage chief boffin The Sun Two Speed 26 Dec 2017
Brainiac LA Times Daily 13 Dec 2017
Brainiac The Washington Post 13 Dec 2017
For example, leader of group and top boffin
Nerdy type Wall Street Journal 18 Jul 2017
Intellectual whose brain might be scrambled?
E? A+ is more likely for this person The Telegraph Toughie 23 Jun 2017
… quite the opposite, as good man breaking oath of old
Bookworm, for instance, supported by good authoritative teacher The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Apr 2017
Clever type of oriental horse gets on top Irish Times Crosaire 15 Apr 2017
Knife cut back across the male's brain
Knife cut back across the male's brain The Times Cryptic 14 Apr 2017
Brainiac
Wander round university sector, following example of intellectual The Telegraph Toughie 23 Nov 2016
E for expert?
As leader of government had written about English intellectual The Times Cryptic 24 May 2016
As leader of government had written about English intellectual
Heed gag on suffering academic The Times Cryptic 04 Apr 2016
Intellectual type -- for example, good school leader The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Feb 2016
Boffin Bill after something composed of yellow and white, gas
'The Big Bang Theory' persona Wall Street Journal 26 Dec 2015
Loaf topped with protein source for the brain The Telegraph Toughie 02 Dec 2015
… to regularly engage chief intellectual
Brainiac Wall Street Journal 10 Nov 2015
Intellectual urged to hold hard, and answer later The Times Cryptic 13 Oct 2015
Say that man's boring Georgia on date -- he's a boffin The Telegraph Toughie 03 Sep 2015
Bit of breakfast with chief boffin The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Sep 2015
Humpty Dumpty as an intellectual? USA Today 22 Aug 2015
Boffin, for example, getting good top on beer The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Jun 2015
Very clever person Irish Times Simplex 12 Jun 2015
Brain? Mine is on top The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Jun 2015
Intellectual, say -- good person to lead school? The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Jun 2015
Brainiac New York Times 30 Apr 2015
E for Einstein? The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Feb 2015
Humpty Dumpty as an intellectual?
Brainiac
"The Big Bang Theory" persona
Brainiac
Intellectual
Intellectual is partial to Clegg, he admits
Prod the brain of an intellectual
Intellectual may take a bashing at the breakfast table
Geek
Brainiac
Einstein‘s old oath about butter somewhat lost
Studious sort
Anti-intellectual epithet
Anti-intellectual epithet
Walking encyclopedia
Walking encyclopedia
Brainiac
Yesterday's geek
Intellectual
"Batman" villain
Yesterday's geek
Walking encyclopedia
Cerebral one
Brainiac
Humpty Dumpty as an intellectual?
Highbrow
Walking encyclopedia, e.g.
Intellectual
Intellectual highbrow
Intellectual, slangily
Highbrow
Longhair
Pseudo-intellectual: Slang.
Intellectual: Colloq.
Modern-type highbrow.
High-brow, modern style.
High IQ person.
The new highbrow: Slang.
Brainiac
Brainy one: Slang.
Visionary: Slang.
Relative of a "longhair,"
Role for Karl Malden.
Intellectual: Slang.
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