Egghead

noun EGG-head ˈɛɡhɛd mild

Also spelled egg head, egg-head

A bald or clean-shaven head, or a person with one — 'egghead' pictures the smooth, egg-like dome of a bald head. Usually teasing. (It can occasionally carry the other English sense of a bookish, brainy person, but the bald-head sense is the everyday Jamaican one.)

  • Since him shave, him a real egghead.

    Since he shaved, he's a real baldy.

  • Di sun shine pon him egghead.

    The sun shone on his bald head.

  • Dem tease him bout him egghead.

    They tease him about his bald head.

From the smooth, egg-shaped look of a bald/shaved head.

Chiefly a bald head/baldy (teasing); can rarely mean a bookish person. Compare 'shine head', 'baldhead'.