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bullet-head

noun

Etymology

From bullet + head.

  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 bullet-head — “bullet + head”

Definitions

  1. A person's head shaped like a bullet.

  2. A stupidly stubborn person.

    • During break midway through our second session, I'd rolled my eyes and quipped sotto voce to Beth that some of the bulletheads in our class probably needed stupidity management more than anger management.

The neighborhood

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