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point·y-head (poin

-h

)

n. Slang

An intellectual.

pointy-headed adj.

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pointy-headed

adj (US pej sl) → abgehoben (pej inf)

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She never gets sick of contrasting her folksy style and "common sense" approach - a phrase she used some 20 times during her interview with a fawning Rush Limbaugh - to the pointy-headed smart people.

Only way out: Give Palin her own show by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

The 'just folks' long-time residents are quite content to live in a place where despite its small size, there are half a dozen churches; people commuted to jobs in Harrisburg; no public library; the nearest Starbucks was a 45-minute drive away [also the distance to the nearest decent bookstore]; and 'anybody who's graduated from the fifth grade is a pointy-headed intellectual.

Living Witness by Feit, Gloria / Reviewer's Bookwatch

Even as this government and its pointy-headed minions lecture us on "sustainability" and plan their patronising and illiberal ecotowns, they undermine existing settlements that, unknown to meat and dairy snoops, and, innocent of thermographic cameras, are far "greener" - unspoilt and free of government and quango interference - than "blue sky" towns planned by wonkish thinking and bullying edict.

Green and unpleasant by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

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