Where did the common name "egghead" come from?

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In the slang of the United States, egghead was an anti-intellectual epithet, directed at people for being too public with their intelligence or for having intellectual interests. The term reached its peak currency during the 1950s, when vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon used it against the quite bald Democrat Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. Since then, it has been replaced in U.S. politics by other anti-intellectual epithets such as liberal elite, and socially by terms such as nerd and geek. Oct 27 04, 9:06 PM

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