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pointy-headed

[ poin-tee-hed-id ]

adjective

Slang: Usually Disparaging.
  1. stupid; idiotic.
  2. intellectual, especially in a self-important or impractical way.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ǾԳy-𲹻 noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pointy-headed1

An Americanism dating back to 1970–75
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This was especially true after single-camera half-hours seized all the critical attention while reliable multi-cams did their thing without the benefit of pointy-headed celebration.

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To baldly paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes, three generations of pointy-headed lawyers is enough.

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Conservatives and business lobbyists commonly dismiss concern about the fate of ostensibly unimportant species as pointy-headed liberal hand-wringing.

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With his tiny head and rumpled feathers, Tuffy appeared like an ungroomed, pointy-headed bichon frisé next to Lola, who seemed more Rottweiler.

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But to average Republicans he sounds like some pointy-headed perfesser.

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