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ˈsquarehead slang.
Also square-head.
[square a. 9 c.]
1. An honest person: one who is not a criminal (see quots.).
1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 293/1 ‘Honesty among thieves’ is undoubtedly the production of a square⁓head or sham thief; a good thief will rob anybody. 1950Austral. Police Jrnl. Apr. 119 Square-head (or squarey), one who has no convictions. 1977Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Feb. 5/1 Half an hour or so later a squarehead (criminal slang for someone who is going straight), who was minding the money in a bag for Blair, handed it over to one of the Toecutters.
2. A foreigner of Germanic extraction, esp. a German (spec. Army slang in the war of 1914–18) or Scandinavian.
1903Farmer & Henley Slang VI. 333/1 Squarehead,..a German or Scandinavian. 1906Soldier Slang in C. McGovern Sarjint Larry an' Frinds, Square-head, a soldier of German birth and addicted to the use of German idioms. 1918H. C. Witwer in Collier's 16 Mar. 21/2 The English call 'em 'Uns..we call 'em squareheads. 1932J. Dos Passos 1919 61 She started firing across the North Star's bows with a small gun that the squareheads manned. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby v. 95 A bunch of Germans with this mob behaved very differently: the square-heads were sullen and surly. 1953Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Oct. 678/2 Those of Swedish extraction in America, known as squareheads, suffer the reputation of being dull, heavy, stupid, simple. 1973D. Jones Let. 15 Apr. in R. Hague Dai Greatcoat (1980) iv. 244 In the ranks we often used ‘Squarehead’ of old Jerry—‘That poor old ‘squarehead’ they brought in from last night's raid looked pretty far gone to me.’
3. In misc. transf. and fig. uses.
1919Dialect Notes V. 62 Square-head, a dull, stupid person. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 26 Oct. 10/3 A real ‘square⁓head’ seaman, who knows what it is like to drift for days without food. 1958‘Castle’ & ‘Hailey’ Flight into Danger i. 13 This plane is crammed with squareheads who are going to Vancouver..to root like hell for their boys. |