Definition of "Einsteiny"

Characteristic of or resembling Albert Einstein, or his theory of relativity; Einsteinian.  quotations

1. Highly intelligent; brilliant.  quotations  examples

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   • he has a really Einsteiny idea , like when he pretends to be talking in his sleep and says , Kick it to me, Joe, we're going to win this game, Danny, and things like that to make them happy

     1998, Ray Keenoy, Saskia Brown, The Babel Guide to Jewish Fiction, page 68

   • […] once in the middle of the night he had an Einsteiny idea,

     2002, David Grossman, See Under: LOVE

   • Terence is this gangly, Einsteiny seventeener who has really low EQ, as in emotional quotient.

     2004, Maria Leonida Fres- Felix, Making Straight Circles, page 27

   • Nothing Einsteiny here, just me.

     2009, Lord De Provence, How To Win The Eurovision Song Contest

   • […] a bag of lollies just before going home to bed is not exactly an Einsteiny manoeuvre.

     2009, Kaz Cooke, The Rough Guide to Babies & Toddlers, page 368

2. Of hair: sticking out wildly.  quotations  examples

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   • The windows were all open in the back, and the wind blew everyone's hair into wild Einsteiny puffs.

     2010, Jodi Lynn Anderson, Loser/Queen, page 98

   • He had a kind of Einsteiny thing going on—a spray of hair radiating out in all directions as if he'd stuck his finger in an electric socket.

     2014, Christy Kidd, Mark Kidd, A Modern Marriage, page 172

   • On this evening (it was seven-ish, late summer), his permanent five o'clock shadow looked polished-on in the sunlit living room, and I noticed his hair was freshly washed, fluffy and Einsteiny.

     2019, Anne Kennedy, The Ice Shelf

   • Your hand is never down in history and your hair's always a bit Einsteiny.

     2020, William Hussey, Hideous Beauty

   • His hair is shorter, less Einsteiny, and he's freshly shaved.

     2020, Jennifer Honeybourn, The Do-Over