Contextualizebeta

bubblehead

noun

Etymology

* From bubble + head. * (diver): Inspired by the shape of the old spun-copper diving helmet.

  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 bubblehead — “bubble + head”

Definitions

  1. A stupid person.

    • I rather enjoyed it, but my niece said Audrey Hepburn was a “bubblehead”.

  2. A submariner

    A submariner; bubble-head.

  3. A navy hard hat or salvage diver.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bubblehead. 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