Etymology

intellectualoid

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Today it means: One with intellectual pretensions Full definition →

First used 1970s
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The story

Coined by columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell writing in The American Spectator from intellectual + -oid.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1970s One with intellectual pretensions

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.