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Meanings of brainy in English

Having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence.

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Usage of brainy in English
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On the other hand, the high brainy forehead would be more original.
Idle Ideas in 1905
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For once, being beautiful and brainy doesn't seem such an enviable combination.
The Guardian
3
But Mrs. Reed Richards was a blonde brainy bombshell with large ta-tas.
A fugitive truth: an emma fielding mystery
4
In high school Lauren had been as shy as she'd been brainy.
To catch a thief
5
The brainy kind excavate cavelike nests beneath rocks in the intertidal zone.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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It is my observation that most husbands do not want brainy wives.
In a gilded cage
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Peter had the reputation, as many quiet men have, of being brainy.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
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Too brainy for her own good, her mother had always told her.
The god project
9
Of course, she's a devilish brainy girl, and I'm a fearful chump.
A Damsel in Distress
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Good Will Hunting, starring a super-brainy Matt Damon, was set on the campus.
The Guardian
11
Freeze-frame it at the moment brainy Gabriella Montez challenges her teacher.
The Guardian
12
It's the brainy, foxy fellows that stay back in the camps.
The Price She Paid
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You and I are the brainy unstable kind, topside or nothing.
The New Machiavelli
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One of the nerdy, brainy types, rather than the kick-in-the-door-and-blast-everything kind of Hunter.
Monster Hunter Vendetta
15
Truly, there's no overestimating the foolishness of Englishmen, especially brainy ones like these.
English passengers
16
He eventually became a sort of independent, brainy misfit in the Radical Party.
The new yorker
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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