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bullet-head
[f. bullet n.1 + head.]
a. A head round like a bullet.
b. A person with such a head; in U.S., fig. a ‘pig-headed’, obstinate person. Hence ˈbullet-ˌheaded, -ˈheadedness.
1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Bullet-headed, a dull silly Fellow. 1722De. Foe Col. Jack (1840) 142 He would have whipped poor bullet-head, so they called the negro. 1793Holcroft Lavater's Physiog. xx. 102 Savages, by being distorted, acquired the appellation of bowl- or bullet-head. 1848Lowell Biglow P. ix. 129 He aint No more 'n a tough old bullethead. a1849Poe Marginalia lxxiv, The disgusting sternness, captiousness, and bullet-headedness of her husband. 1857E. Beadle To Nebraska (1923) 19 A clever bullet-headed Kentuckyan. 1872F. W. Robinson Tito's Troub. in Wrayford's Ward, I was a thin, gawky, bullet-headed youth. 1875Buckland Log-Bk. 25 Popped his bullet head..round from the Curtain. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 54 Bullet-headed bandit. |