Egghead and Nerd

Egghead

Egghead noun - A person with strong intellectual interests.

Usage example: the unlikely marriage between a literary egghead and a Hollywood sex symbol

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Nerd and egghead are semantically related in clever boy topic. In some cases you can use "Nerd" instead a noun "Egghead".

Nerd noun - A person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits.

Usage example: was such a nerd in college that she spent Saturday nights at the library

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Egghead and nerd are semantically related in clever boy topic. You can use "Egghead" instead a noun "Nerd".

resident egghead

resident nerd

A Badass Bookworm is someone who acts and looks like a bookworm, egghead, geek/nerd, intellectual, etc.

Source: Trope Distinctions / A to C
The price paid is loneliness and awful difficulties in social relations, growing fed up with the general stupidity of humankind and being branded as "egghead", "geek" or "nerd", but it also gives a far greater cognitive performance than otherwise would be possible.

Source: Cursed with Awesome

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