fivehead

noun

Etymology

Blend of five + forehead. Wordplay based on adding one to the "fore" (homophonous to four) of forehead, thus implying a brow that is larger than average.

  1. inherited from *forēhaubid
  2. inherited from forehēafod
  3. inherited from forhed
  4. compounded as fivehead — “five + forehead

Definitions

  1. A large forehead.

    • His splashiest trick is balancing a glass of grape juice on his forehead (which is so big, he says, that everyone calls it a fivehead) while playing the ukulele, whistling and doing a backward somersault.
    • It also helps that my hair has left for higher ground and instead of a forehead, as the joke goes, I have a fivehead.
    • For starters, thin me tanned easily and didn't have a forehead so wide it was called a fivehead.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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