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forkhead

noun

Etymology

From fork + 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 forkhead — “fork + head”

Definitions

  1. A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.

  2. The forked end of a rod in a knuckle joint or similar.

  3. An arrow with a barbed tip.

    • With that at him a quiv'ring dart he threw, / With so fell force, and villeinous despite, / That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew, / And through the linked mayles empierced quite […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Euphemistic form of fuckhead.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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