pinhead
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pinhead¹
- /ˈpɪn.hɛd/
Rhymes with -ɪnhɛd
Where it comes from
From pin + head.
noun pinheads · pin-head · pin head
- The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.) The moment the nitre was red hot, the coal, previously reduced to small pieces of the size of a pinhead, was projected in portions of one or two grains at a time…
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A foolish or stupid person.
I don't want to be a pinhead no more / I just met a nurse that I could go for
Similar: doofus, dumbbell, dunce, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk
- A telemark skier.
- A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in freak shows as "human pinheads". The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile.
- A newborn cricket used as food for pets. A newly hatched gecko will need pretty small crickets, but you will not have to go all the way down to pinheads.
- The immature juvenile fruiting body of a mushroom prior to its gills opening.
Pinhead²
Where it comes from
So called because they sold pin-on lilies to commemorate the Easter Rising.
noun Pinheads
- A member of the Provisional IRA.
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noun head of pin
| Français | tête d'épingle |
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