Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) a derog. term for an intellectual.

1900

Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Oct. 12/4: Prof. Morris, Prof. Tucker, and other pedagogues have hired a hall, and are going to spout their opinions about Chaucer to an audience chiefly pedantic. But these wordy celebrations are weary. Let someone propose to celebrate Chaucer by publicly reading some of his bluest productions unexpurgated. The reader would probably be locked up by the police, but there would be more real Chaucer in the thing than in the spoutings of the professional fuzzy-wuzzies.