egghead的词源

英文词源

egghead (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
also egg-head, 1907, "bald person," from egg (n.) + head (n.). Sense of "intellectual" is attested from 1918, among Chicago newspapermen; popularized by U.S. syndicated columnist Stewart Alsop in 1952 in reference to Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign.
Adlai Stevenson once told what it was like to be the rare intellectual in politics. "Via ovicapitum dura est," he said, the way of the egghead is hard. [New York Times, Oct. 28, 1982]

中文词源

egghead:学究

字面意思即学究,聪明绝顶。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版:egghead 词源,egghead 含义。

egghead:知识分子,自以为有大学问的人  

该词始见于美国小说家约翰逊(Owen Johnson,1878 -1952)在20世纪初出版的一部通俗小说。该小说在当时颇受男孩的欢迎,因此egghead 一词曾作为俚语在学生中流行一时,用以指有时作出愚蠢举动的知识分子,以后渐遭废弃。到了1952年艾森豪威尔(D- D. Eisenhower,1890 - 1969)和史蒂文森(Adlai E. Steveson,l900 - 1965)竞选美国总统时,艾森豪威尔的支持者把史蒂文森的支持者说成为“a largeoval head, faceless, unemotional, but a litile bit naughty and condescending”(长着一副卵形大脑袋,面无表情,有点高傲而瞧不起人的样子)。于是egghead 一词再度复活,也许是因为史蒂文森的额部大而秃,脑袋颇似鸡蛋,有知识分子气质,故他本人及支持他的知识分子均被蔑称为egghead。该词现在仍指“知识分子”,“学问家”,但常含贬义。