hot-headedadj.

1603 J. Hayward Answer Conf. conc. Succession iv. sig. L iiii^v You would not thus confidently haue opposed your hot headed assertion against al the ancient fathers of the church.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 25 The blasphemous Jesuits presum'd..to give their judgement of S. Paul, as of a hot headed person.

1694 Ld. Delamere Wks. 17 A hot-headed or rash Action.

1724 ‘C. Johnson’ Gen. Hist. Pyrates 236 He verily believed him to be the Man who prevented the ships being blown up, by..opposing himself against such hot headed fellows as had procured lighted Matches.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 60 The hot-headed boy is more than ever incensed against Wilson.

1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs I. xi. 254 He was anxious to get so hot-headed a youth out of his house, and to collect his gold and servants, that he might commence his own flight by break of day.

1855 Harper's Mag. July 210/1 I know that hot-headed, blundering Indian uncle of mine is furious against me.

1887 Spectator 26 Mar. 413/2 Too hot~headed and violent for a diplomatist.

1901 M. Carmichael In Tuscany iii. 115 A hot-headed Romagnol, Alfonso Cerquetti,..had the hardihood to publish a pamphlet pointing out errors in the new Vocabolario of the Academy.

1942 J. Thurber Lett. (2002) 352 This desire of his to run people out of town alarms me. I have seen trippers in action and I know what you mean. I used to write hotheaded letters, but I always held them overnight.

1991 Sports Illustr. 24 June 68/1 Belle is just too hotheaded to handle.

1679 J. Carkesse Lucida Intervalla 49 For though I'm thought hot-headed, I find no harm, In keeping with your gift my Noddle warm.

1680 Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 60 Then I wake, hot-headed, and drunk.

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 77 The women do not dance till they are a little hot-headed.

1770 Lett. to Ladies viii. 62 If a natural philosopher should be asked his opinion of the specific gravity of a fashionable lady's head, he would certainly answer that she was extremely light-headed; and, I think, I might affirm as positively, that she was hot-headed too. It is impossible but so great a load of false hair much be highly prejudicial to the head.

1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Dec. g6 It is crucial, also, to wear a hat. We are hot-headed creatures, which means that a fair proportion of body warmth escapes through the head.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 14 May Aloe Vera is nature's coolant. It is ideal for use after you've had a bit too much sun... I've even been known to dab a blob of this pale-green gel on my temples when I feel a bit hot-headed.

1777 H. Walpole Let. 6 Nov. (1861) VII. 4 They did not hot-headedly thrust themselves into more danger than their companions.

1895 Forum (N.Y.) Jan. 524 Some isolated..workmen..did throw themselves hot-headedly into the fray.

1993 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Oct. 2 A first offender..had acted hot-headedly but had since paid £5445 towards the damage he had caused.

1673 O. Walker Of Educ. (ed. 2) ii. vii. 264* Strong Drinks and Tobacco fill the head with imaginations, hot headedness, jealousies, &c. when a man should hast to his emploiment, he must go to sleep, or to his Mistress.

a1777 J. White Adventures John of Gaunt (1790) I. iv. 20 His hot-headedness, or, if you will, the ebullition of youthful spirit..betrayed him into quarrels ill-becoming his condition as a prince of the blood royal.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxvi The hotheadedness..of boys in love.

1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones ii. 40 He was a charming man, notwithstanding his paranoia and hot-headedness.