Contextualizebeta

hotheaded

adj

Etymology

From hot + headed.

  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. suffixed as headed — “head + ed”
  7. compounded as hotheaded — “hot + headed”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness

    Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.

    • Such an opportunity can hardly again occur to an ancient and grey-haired man; and to see it lost by the madcap spleen of a hot-headed boy!
    • "But I am!" flashed the young man, as if he had been misunderstood. "Listen. You're like all boys—hot-headed an' hasty. Let me talk a little," resumed Anderson.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hotheaded. 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