pointy-head


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point·y-head

 (poin′tē-hĕd′)
n. Slang
An intellectual.
point′y-head′ed adj.

pointy-head

n
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
Some pointy-head professor of sexual psychology would complain that it had subliminal links with pornography and phallic symbolism.
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George Shultz plays the treacherous, striped-pants pointy-head --a laugh if ever there was one.
Minority report
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
4% off forecast growth over the next five years, according to the pointy-heads at the Office for Budget Responsibility.
Hammond opens his account by slashing his Budgets by 50%; GAVIN CORDON watches the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, break his promise regarding rabbits and hats
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-
The firms may have gone, but the pointy-heads endure, including Martin Leibowitz at Morgan Stanley and Jess Yawitz at NISA in St Louis.
The Definition of Hip
Academic pointy-heads should follow the impact factors.
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He gave roughly the same speech to the rednecks and the pointy-heads.
Al, we hardly know ye

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