airhead
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airhead¹
- /ˈɛə̯hɛd/ UK
- /ˈɛɹˌ(h)ɛd/ US
Where it comes from
From air + head (“foremost, topmost, or leading part”), sense 1 (“area of hostile territory seized for use as an airbase”) by analogy with beachhead and bridgehead.
noun airheads
- An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel. The only difference between an airhead and a beachhead is that an airhead covers 360 degrees whereas a beachhead usually covers 180 degrees. An airhead is two beachheads back to back with the reinforcements and resupply coming by air instead of by sea. [...] [T]o handle their mountainous proportions
- A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.
- Alternative form of air-head (“a horizontal channel providing ventilation in a mine.”). [T]he mine then becomes exposed to the most fearful results, where the workings have been opened, by the Air being driven backwards along the Airhead into the reservoirs of Gas formed in the upper cavities of the workings, and issuing into the Gate-road charged with the Gas to the firing point, caus
airhead²
- /ˈɛə̯hɛd/ UK
- /ˈɛɹˌ(h)ɛd/ US
Where it comes from
From air + head, in the sense of having one’s head filled with air instead of a brain; compare empty-headed.
noun airheads
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A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.
Sometimes people tell you directly that you aren't very smart, but most of the time they ignore your attempts to display your intelligence, or they kid you about being a "space case" or an "airhead." After a while you are bound to see yourself as not very intelligent, particularly if the people who
Similar: airling, bimbo, bubblehead, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk
Translations
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noun area of hostile territory seized for use as an airbase
| Deutsch | Luftbrückenkopf, Luftlandekopf |
|---|---|
| Italiano | testa di ponte |
| Ελληνικά | αερογεφύρωμα aerogefýroma |
| Русский | возду́шный плацда́рм vozdúšnyj placdárm, плацда́рм для возду́шного деса́нта placdárm dlja vozdúšnovo desánta |
noun landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation
| Deutsch | Luftbrückenkopf |
|---|
noun foolish, silly, or unintelligent person
| Español | burro, cabeza de chorlito, cabeza hueca, chorlito, estúpido, tontón |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 天然 tennen |
| 中文 | 呆頭呆腦 /呆头呆脑 dāitóudāinǎo |
| Português | cabeça de vento |
| Français | tête de linotte |
| Deutsch | Dummkopf, Wirrkopf |
| Italiano | svampita, testa vuota |
| Русский | дурачо́к duračók, ду́рочка dúročka, пуста́я башка́ pustája bašká |
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title = {airhead},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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