egghead

A bald person, especially a man.

Noun

  1. A bald person, especially a man.
    • Then no one will know whether you are a genuine egghead or not. Besides, completely bald men are more sensual. - 1993, Richard Sandomir, The Joy of Baldness: Men with less hair — and the women who love them, page 164:
    • His own image as a bald man - egghead - with glasses aids this perception. - 2005, Clare O'Farrell, Michel Foucault, page 1:
    • Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon." - 2018, Balázs Apor, The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956, page...
  2. A bald head.
    • But at the top of the "egghead", the blood vessels become pinched and the flow is blocked. - 1962, The Pakistan Review - Volume 10, page Page 43:
    • At one point he even lifts his cap to reveal an egghead bald-cap atop white hair and spectacles. - 2002, Robert Ross, The Complete Terry Thomas, page 87:
    • Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over. - 2010, Jena Pincott, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?:, page 81:
  3. An intellectual, especially one who is insensitive, pedantic, or out of touch.
    • Just because some of you eggheads spend half your life in college don't mean you've got any monopoly on good common sense. - 1963, Guy McCord [pseudonym; Mack Reynolds], The Common Man:

Origin

From egg + head.

Forms

eggheads

Synonyms

boffin brain

Related

wonk

Derived

eggheadery