英语单词“pointy-headed”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 pointy-headed 释义 pointy-headedadjectiveUSinformalmainlydisapproving(alsopointy headed)uk

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/?p??n.t?i?hed.?d/intelligentandinterestedinstudyingand otheractivitiesthatinvolvecarefulthinkingandmentaleffort, usually in a way that otherpeoplefindannoying:Parents don't like it when pointy-headedacademicstellthem how toraisetheirkids.Thehackerswereinitiallyassumedto be pointy-headedkidsplayingcomputergamesingrown-upplaces.

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• The otherdayshe referred to me as a "pointy-headed so and so."
• There was always a pointy-headedexperthangingaroundworkstationsremindingpeopletodefragmentthe harddisk.
• Is she thepluckyandcompetenteverywoman,readytofightthepointyheadedelitesof Washington?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Intelligent people

• academic
• bluestocking
• bookish
• bookworm
• bright spark
• cerebral
• clever
• gnome
• intellectual
• laureate
• mage
• mind
• not be just a pretty faceidiom
• scholar
• smart cookie
• smart-arse
• superintellectual
• the intelligentsia
• thinker
• wit

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(Definition ofpointy-headedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/pointy-headed##