flat-headn.adj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflat-head.

A. n.

a. One who has a flat head; spec. a member of a North American Indian people named from their supposed practice of flattening their children's heads artificially.The people now commonly known by this appellation is the Selish or Hopilpo; but ‘they do not flatten the heads of their children, and appear never to have done so; the name Flathead being at first applied to them by mistake’ ( Encycl. Amer. 1886).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [noun]

snake1791

Kutenai1801

Pierced Nose1805

Shoshone1805

Tillamook1806

Wallawalla1806

Nez Perce1811

Ute1826

Paiute1827

Spokane1831

Sahaptin1836

flat-head1837

Shuswap1838

Twana1838

Salish1843

Molale1844

Washoe1846

Yakima1852

Skokomish1854

Klamath1890

1837 T. P. Thompson Lett. Representative 2nd Ser. 30 There are flat-heads there [i.e. in Sierra Leone] as in other countries.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 121 The Flathead levelled his piece, and brought the Blackfoot to the ground.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlviii. 110 The Chinooks..correctly come under the name of Flat Heads, as they are almost the only people who strictly adhere to the custom of squeezing and flattening the head.

1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man II. xxii. 305 The strange practice of the American Flatheads far to the north-east of the Altai chain.

b. A fool, simpleton. dialect and slang.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun]

boinarda1300

daffc1325

goky1377

nicea1393

unwiseman1400

totc1425

alphinc1440

dawc1500

hoddypeak1500

dawpatea1529

hoddypolla1529

noddy1534

kimec1535

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sheep's head1542

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nodgecock1566

peak-goosea1568

hottie tottie?c1570

Tom Towly1582

wittol1588

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nodgecomb1592

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chicken1600

fopdoodle16..

hoddy-noddy1600

hoddy-doddy1601

peagoose1606

fopster1607

nazold1607

nupson1607

wigeon1607

fondrel1613

simpleton1639

pigwidgeon1640

simpletonian1652

Tony1654

nizy1673

Simple Simon?1673

Tom Farthing1674

totty-head1680

cockcomb1684

cod1699

nikin1699

sap-pate1699

simpkin1699

mackninnya1706

gilly-gaupus?1719

noodle1720

sapskull1735

gobbin?1746

Judy1781

zanya1784

spoony1795

sap-head1798

spoon1799

gomerel1814

sap1815

neddy1818

milestone1819

sunket1823

sunketa1825

gawp1825

gawpy1825

gawpus1826

Tomnoddy1826

Sammy1828

tammie norie1828

Tommy1828

gom1834

noodlehead1835

nowmun1854

gum-sucker1855

flat-head1862

peggy1869

noodledum1883

jay1884

toot1888

peanut head1891

simp1903

sappyhead1922

Arkie1927

putz1928

steamer1932

jerk-off1939

drongo1942

galah1945

Charley1946

nong-nong1959

mouth-breather1979

twonk1981

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 50 Ah tell'd him 'at he hedn't t'sense 'at he wur born wi'—a big flathead.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxiii. 198 Greenhorns, flatheads!

1902 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 2/1 ‘G'n, ye little flathead,’ he said admonishingly, ‘folks don't get headaches here.’

1922 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 29 Dec. in Performing Flea (1953) 19 Your stuff is really too good for the ordinary magazine, so that when you don't have a plot which is all right for the flatheads anyway, editors are apt to turn you down.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 29 Flathead, a simpleton or fool.

1966 New Statesman 6 May 654/2 Gobbledygook is the defence of the American intellectual aware of the hostile mockery of the surrounding flatheads.

2. Australia. The local name for a fish of the genus Ceratodus.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > [noun] > order Dipnoi > group Sirenoidei > genus Ceratodus > member of

mudfish1502

flat-head1832

barramundi1873

ceratodus1874

1832 J. Bischoff Sketch Hist. Van Diemen's Land ii. 32 The market of Hobart Town is supplied with small rock cod, flat-heads, and a fish called the perch.

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. xii. 386 A good basket of schnappers and flatheads.

3. U.S. ‘A snake which flattens its head, as a species of Heterodon’ ( Cent. Dict.).

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1888 Bergen in Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 660 The blow-snake of Illinois is variously known in other localities as hog-nose, flat-head, viper, and puff-adder.

a. Architecture. An ornament of an archivolt with a flat uncarved surface.

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1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. Flat-heads, an ornament peculiar to the Romano-Byzantine period, which decorates archivolts.

b. A flat stone surmounting a pillar. U.S.

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1838 Knickerbocker Mag. 11 518 Often have the flat heads of the gate-posts served as a platform to the branches.

B. adj. (attributive).

Having a flat head or top.

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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [adjective] > having flat top

platformed1632

tabulated1681

flat-headed1752

nail-headed1801

table-topped1821

tabular1826

flat-head1874

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 878/1 Flat-head Nail, a forged nail with a round, flat head.

1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 311/1 The flat-head houses of Brooklyn.

Compounds

flat-head adder n. = sense 3.

ΚΠ

1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 10 I have known the Flat-head Adder or Blowing Viper, Heterodon platyrhinos, to eat the heads of the common eel.

flat-head horse n.

ΚΠ

a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent vii. 68 The little villain's mount was a red roan, a Flat-head horse.

flat-head Indian n. = sense 1.

ΚΠ

1847 P. J. de Smet Oregon Missions 33 Father De Smet..was sent on a visit..to the Flathead Indians.

1879 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 837/1 In a legend of the Flathead Indians.

Derivatives

flat-head v. transitive to flatten the head of.

ΚΠ

a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1862) 204 One infant..was being flat-headed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	flat-head
释义	flat-headn.adj. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflat-head. A. n. 1. a. One who has a flat head; spec. a member of a North American Indian people named from their supposed practice of flattening their children's heads artificially.The people now commonly known by this appellation is the Selish or Hopilpo; but ‘they do not flatten the heads of their children, and appear never to have done so; the name Flathead being at first applied to them by mistake’ ( Encycl. Amer. 1886). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [noun] snake1791 Kutenai1801 Pierced Nose1805 Shoshone1805 Tillamook1806 Wallawalla1806 Nez Perce1811 Ute1826 Paiute1827 Spokane1831 Sahaptin1836 flat-head1837 Shuswap1838 Twana1838 Salish1843 Molale1844 Washoe1846 Yakima1852 Skokomish1854 Klamath1890 1837 T. P. Thompson Lett. Representative 2nd Ser. 30 There are flat-heads there [i.e. in Sierra Leone] as in other countries. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 121 The Flathead levelled his piece, and brought the Blackfoot to the ground. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlviii. 110 The Chinooks..correctly come under the name of Flat Heads, as they are almost the only people who strictly adhere to the custom of squeezing and flattening the head. 1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man II. xxii. 305 The strange practice of the American Flatheads far to the north-east of the Altai chain. b. A fool, simpleton. dialect and slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun] boinarda1300 daffc1325 goky1377 nicea1393 unwiseman1400 totc1425 alphinc1440 dawc1500 hoddypeak1500 dawpatea1529 hoddypolla1529 noddy1534 kimec1535 coxcomb1542 sheep1542 sheep's head1542 goose1547 dawcock1556 nodgecock1566 peak-goosea1568 hottie tottie?c1570 Tom Towly1582 wittol1588 goose-cap1589 nodgecomb1592 ninny1593 chicken1600 fopdoodle16.. hoddy-noddy1600 hoddy-doddy1601 peagoose1606 fopster1607 nazold1607 nupson1607 wigeon1607 fondrel1613 simpleton1639 pigwidgeon1640 simpletonian1652 Tony1654 nizy1673 Simple Simon?1673 Tom Farthing1674 totty-head1680 cockcomb1684 cod1699 nikin1699 sap-pate1699 simpkin1699 mackninnya1706 gilly-gaupus?1719 noodle1720 sapskull1735 gobbin?1746 Judy1781 zanya1784 spoony1795 sap-head1798 spoon1799 gomerel1814 sap1815 neddy1818 milestone1819 sunket1823 sunketa1825 gawp1825 gawpy1825 gawpus1826 Tomnoddy1826 Sammy1828 tammie norie1828 Tommy1828 gom1834 noodlehead1835 nowmun1854 gum-sucker1855 flat-head1862 peggy1869 noodledum1883 jay1884 toot1888 peanut head1891 simp1903 sappyhead1922 Arkie1927 putz1928 steamer1932 jerk-off1939 drongo1942 galah1945 Charley1946 nong-nong1959 mouth-breather1979 twonk1981 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 50 Ah tell'd him 'at he hedn't t'sense 'at he wur born wi'—a big flathead. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxiii. 198 Greenhorns, flatheads! 1902 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 2/1 ‘G'n, ye little flathead,’ he said admonishingly, ‘folks don't get headaches here.’ 1922 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 29 Dec. in Performing Flea (1953) 19 Your stuff is really too good for the ordinary magazine, so that when you don't have a plot which is all right for the flatheads anyway, editors are apt to turn you down. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 29 Flathead, a simpleton or fool. 1966 New Statesman 6 May 654/2 Gobbledygook is the defence of the American intellectual aware of the hostile mockery of the surrounding flatheads. 2. Australia. The local name for a fish of the genus Ceratodus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > [noun] > order Dipnoi > group Sirenoidei > genus Ceratodus > member of mudfish1502 flat-head1832 barramundi1873 ceratodus1874 1832 J. Bischoff Sketch Hist. Van Diemen's Land ii. 32 The market of Hobart Town is supplied with small rock cod, flat-heads, and a fish called the perch. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. xii. 386 A good basket of schnappers and flatheads. 3. U.S. ‘A snake which flattens its head, as a species of Heterodon’ ( Cent. Dict.). ΚΠ 1888 Bergen in Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 660 The blow-snake of Illinois is variously known in other localities as hog-nose, flat-head, viper, and puff-adder. 4. a. Architecture. An ornament of an archivolt with a flat uncarved surface. ΚΠ 1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. Flat-heads, an ornament peculiar to the Romano-Byzantine period, which decorates archivolts. b. A flat stone surmounting a pillar. U.S. ΚΠ 1838 Knickerbocker Mag. 11 518 Often have the flat heads of the gate-posts served as a platform to the branches. B. adj. (attributive). Having a flat head or top. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [adjective] > having flat top platformed1632 tabulated1681 flat-headed1752 nail-headed1801 table-topped1821 tabular1826 flat-head1874 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 878/1 Flat-head Nail, a forged nail with a round, flat head. 1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 311/1 The flat-head houses of Brooklyn. Compounds flat-head adder n. = sense 3. ΚΠ 1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 10 I have known the Flat-head Adder or Blowing Viper, Heterodon platyrhinos, to eat the heads of the common eel. flat-head horse n. ΚΠ a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent vii. 68 The little villain's mount was a red roan, a Flat-head horse. flat-head Indian n. = sense 1. ΚΠ 1847 P. J. de Smet Oregon Missions 33 Father De Smet..was sent on a visit..to the Flathead Indians. 1879 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 837/1 In a legend of the Flathead Indians. Derivatives flat-head v. transitive to flatten the head of. ΚΠ a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1862) 204 One infant..was being flat-headed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1832
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