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hothead

noun

Etymology

From hot + head. Compare English hotbrain (“a hothead”); Middle English hot-heorte, hat-heorte (“anger”), Old English hātheort (“furious, angry, irascible, passionate, ardent”, literally “hot-heart”).

  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 hothead — “hot + head”

Definitions

  1. One who becomes angry easily or goes in search of arguments or fights.

    • The club was full of eager young hotheads who never seemed to be able to agree on anything.

  2. One who reacts quickly and without thinking carefully first.

    • Someone get this hothead out of here before he does some damage.

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