インテリ

インテリ · interi · JLPT N1 · noun

egghead

🥚 Clipped from intelligentsia, from Latin intelligere: to understand

Japanese drops the -gentsia ending of intelligentsia, which comes from the same root as intelligence. An interi is an educated thinker, and the egg emoji nods to the egghead sense.

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