◆digit head comes from Egghead In the slang of the United States,egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet,directed at people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense,virility,etc.on account of their intellectual interests. Listening and interpret: digit head comes from Egghead In the slang of the United States, egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet, directed at people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc. on account of their intellectual interests.  Listening and interpret: