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idlehead

noun

Etymology

From Middle English idelhed, equivalent to idle + -head.

  1. inherited from idelhed

Definitions

  1. One who is vain and foolish.

    • But now St. George must eyther poast away unto the Land of Faeries, and there remaine for ever, with other the Chimeras of an idlehead; or which is worse, bee layde for all eternity in the pit of horrour, with Heretickes and Atheists.
    • Will my visit disabuse you of that confusion, you idleheads?

  2. obsolete form of idlehood

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for idlehead. 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