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bobblehead

noun

Etymology

From bobble + head. Sense 3 derives from a common gesture found in South Asian cultures, most notably in India.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as bobblehead — “bobble + head”

Definitions

  1. A collectible doll with a bobbing head.

  2. A thoughtless person.

    • Will Trump and his G.O.P. bobbleheads ever wake up to that? Maybe — when it’s too late.

  3. An Indian.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bobblehead. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA