Fuse together a fragile breakfast food laid by a hen with the body part that houses your brain, and you get a slang term used to describe a brilliant, bookish intellectual. What compound word is formed?
Egghead
The answer is created by joining two common nouns: 'egg' and 'head.' When concatenated, 'egghead' forms a long-standing piece of English slang referring to an intensely studious, academic, or intellectual person.
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