pointy-head

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point·y-head

(poin′tē-hĕd′)

n. Slang

An intellectual.

point′y-head′ed adj.

pointy-head

chiefly censorious informal US an intellectual

ˈpointy-ˌheaded adj

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Some Pointy-head Pooter has changed the sequence, so it is now an almighty mess.

Wiser heads needed to control traffic chaos

The shop looks a treat, with big leafy bunches of shining, washed beetroots, carrots and onions on one side and a stunning display of pointy-head cabbages, lime-green calabrese, fennel, red and green frilly lettuce, peas, french and runner beans, and potatoes on the other.

Tip-top fresh food straight from the fields in a farm's growing business; After 15 years of struggle, couple find themselves reaping success

Better that than a pointy-head who still believes in class division and inherited privilege.

Give us power not pomp and ceremony; Big day must not become a panto

Some pointy-head professor of sexual psychology would complain that it had subliminal links with pornography and phallic symbolism.

40 years on, it's still Shep-shape

No sooner had the young pointy-head read this horrendous slur than he was haring around to the barbers.

MAC THE KNIFE: Donald, where's your manners?; RON MacKENNA ON THE POLITICAL CUTTING EDGE

Eyeing his train timetables and toy soldiers, the pointy-head added that many analysts reckoned that BT would abandon the flotation altogether, instead saving cash by chopping the dividend and raising cash through a rights issue.

Suzy In The City: Rumble In The Jungle

As Michael Dugher MP, UK Labour Party vicechairman who was frustrated by Miliband's team of muppets, said: "Too many pointy-heads and too few street fighters.

Arrogant and out of touch, Scots Labour are finally reaping what they've sown; WHERE NOW FOR LABOUR? ..NOW FOR LABOUR? .. WHERE Former Daily Record columnist delivers his withering verdict on Scottish Labour's electoral demise and says they only have themselves to blame for driving fed-up voters to the SNP

Last week's column on Ed Miliband and his pointy-heads caused a stir.

SS LABOURING A POINTYT-

Their argument goes that the exercise is not merely academic, it's political - that it is all well and good for a commission of pointy-heads to recommend a slate of measures, but if they are undeliverable in practice a year has been wasted.