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† ˈgrosshead Obs.
Also 6–7 gros(e-, grosshead.
[f. gross a. + head.]
A thick-headed person, a dullard.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Hinard, a grose head. 1589Hay any Work A iij, Non would be so groshead as to gather that I threatned him with blowes, and to deale by stafford law. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. (1612) 148 The Groshead now and then, as hapt, a thred-bare terme lets drop. [1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 467 Many simple and grosse heads [shall bee preferred] before the suitable and fine-witted. ]1606Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 58 Thomas Symondes hath got an office in court, and is become the king's grosehead. |