long headn.

Brit.

/ˈlɒŋ hɛd/, U.S.

/ˈlɔŋ ˌhɛd/,

/ˈlɑŋ ˌhɛd/

Forms: see long adj.¹ and n.¹ and head n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.¹, head n.¹

Etymology: < long adj.¹ + head n.¹In sense 1 with allusion to the long hair typically worn by Royalists, as opposed to the closely cropped hair associated with the Puritans; compare roundhead n. 1a, and see discussion at that entry. In sense 2 after classical Latin macrocephalus and its etymon ancient Greek μακροκέϕαλος macrocephalus n.; compare long-headed adj. 2b, and also (with later use) dolichocephal n.

†1. British History. A member or adherent of the Royalist party during the English Civil War; = cavalier n. 3. Cf. roundhead n. 1a. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > cavalier or royalist cause > supporter of

rattle-head1641

cavalier1642

delinquent1642

long head1642

malignant1642

Cab1644

cavy1645

kebc1645

rattlepate1646

cave1661

heroic1682

1642 (title) A short, compendious, and true description of the round-heads, and the long-heads.

1642 T. Robinson Petitioners Vindic. 19 (margin) Thus..the Damme Boyes or Long-heads at Yorke served the Lincolnshire Gentlemen, & others that petitioned the King to return to His Parliament.

2. Originally: a member of an ancient tribe of people reputed to have unusually long skulls; = macrocephalus n. 1. In later use also: a person with a dolichocephalic skull. Cf. short head n. (a) at short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [noun] > types of skull > person having

macrocephalus1626

long head1650

microcephalus1848

brachycephales1863

dolichocephali1863

brachistocephali1866

mecistocephali1866

Mesocephali1866

roundhead1867

microcephale1873

microcephalic1873

dolichocephal1876

mesorrhinian1878

mesocephal1883

short head1883

mesorrhine1885

platyrrhine1886

brachycephal1901

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 2 There were found many Macrocephali among them, that is, such Long-heads as no other Nation had the like.

1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 292 Hippocrates tells us, that among our Ancestors, the Scythians, there was a Nation call'd, Longheads.

1844 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 18 373 His [sc. Retzius] first division of the nations of men is into Dolicocephalæ and Brachycephalæ; the long-heads being, of course, those whose cerebral lobes completely cover the cerebellum, the short-heads, those in whom they do not.

1890 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Nov. 757 The tall blond long-heads practically disappear.

1900 Daily News 31 July 6/5 The wanderings of the long heads over the Western hemisphere are traced by their monuments.

1946 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 93/2 Hippocrates..uses the accepted views of his times to account for the physical divergence of the ‘Long-heads’.

2006 S. Wichmann tr. S. Arvidsson Aryan Idols v. 278 The Indo-German long-heads could never have built up the European culture without help from the agriculture of the older short-skulls.

3. slang.

a. An aptitude for calculation or forethought; shrewdness, intelligence. Esp. in to have a long head. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun]

i-witc888

anyitOE

understandinga1050

ferec1175

skillwisenessa1200

quaintisec1300

brainc1325

cunning1340

reder1340

cunningnessa1400

sentencec1400

intelligence?1435

speculation1471

ingeny1474

cunningheadc1475

capacity1485

pregnancyc1487

dexterity1527

pregnance?1533

shift1542

wittiness1543

ingeniousness1555

conceitedness1576

pate1598

conceit1604

ingeniosity1607

dexterousness1622

talent1622

ingenuousness1628

solertiousnessa1649

ingenuity1651

partedness1654

brightness1655

solerty1656

prettiness1674

long head1694

long lega1705

cleverness1755

smartness1800

cleverality1828

brain power1832

knowledgeability1834

braininess1876

cerebrality1901

1694 tr. N. Rémond des Cours True Conduct Persons of Quality lxxv. 176 They who..have a vast Reach, and a long Head, wherewith to penetrate into Intrigues.

1710 Tatler 29 June 6 These are your persons of long heads, who would fain make the world believe their thoughts and ideas very much superior to their neighbours.

1773 R. Fergusson Poems 98 He cou'd make clear baith B's and A's Wi' his lang head.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. viii. 445 He had a long head, as well as a fanciful brain.

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. 102 That reprobate had a long head on those same fustigated shoulders.

1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) 134 He has always had luck, and he has a long head too.

1913 W. N. Harben Desired Woman i. iv. 55 He has a long head on him—never gets excited and seldom makes a wrong move in a deal.

1951 W. W. Coblientz From Life Researcher x. 121 And when I told him of my intention..he remarked, ‘You have a long head.’

b. A shrewd or intelligent person. Occasionally somewhat depreciative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > intelligent person

wit1508

callent1637

intelligent1640

headpiece1647

intelligence1648

long head1744

intellect1842

sharpshins1883

brain1914

brain-box1942

brainiac1975

1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. i. 24 That Gentleman who spoke to you first is one of the sharpest Men I know; he is one of the Long-heads, and much too wise to let anyone impose on him.

1798 J. Redman Will in Athenaeum (1880) 365/3 Answers intended by the longheads of the law, fatheads of the Church, and wiseheads of an insolent, usurping aristocracy.

1865 J. Campbell Short Amer. Tramp xiv. 284 Now this process did not produce uniformity in the growth of a town which only a few long heads foresaw in the swamp.

1890 Punch 22 Feb. 85/2 Luck, Law, and the Longheads, Have arranged the world.

1932 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 2 Aug. (1964) 498 I did not destinate to signify that you were a wiseacre..but..that you were..a longhead,..as are so many epigrammatists, wit-worms, [etc.].

1962 N. E. Whitten in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 75 312 The longhead said that the woman had put her ‘monthly’ (menstrual blood) into the beer, making Edward desire her.

2008 New York Sun (Nexis) 14 June 9 He told an audience of chin-pullers and longheads at the Brookings Institution that he might consider running for president in 2008.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	long head
释义	long headn. Brit. /ˈlɒŋ hɛd/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋ ˌhɛd/, /ˈlɑŋ ˌhɛd/ Forms: see long adj.¹ and n.¹ and head n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.¹, head n.¹ Etymology: < long adj.¹ + head n.¹In sense 1 with allusion to the long hair typically worn by Royalists, as opposed to the closely cropped hair associated with the Puritans; compare roundhead n. 1a, and see discussion at that entry. In sense 2 after classical Latin macrocephalus and its etymon ancient Greek μακροκέϕαλος macrocephalus n.; compare long-headed adj. 2b, and also (with later use) dolichocephal n. †1. British History. A member or adherent of the Royalist party during the English Civil War; = cavalier n. 3. Cf. roundhead n. 1a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > cavalier or royalist cause > supporter of rattle-head1641 cavalier1642 delinquent1642 long head1642 malignant1642 Cab1644 cavy1645 kebc1645 rattlepate1646 cave1661 heroic1682 1642 (title) A short, compendious, and true description of the round-heads, and the long-heads. 1642 T. Robinson Petitioners Vindic. 19 (margin) Thus..the Damme Boyes or Long-heads at Yorke served the Lincolnshire Gentlemen, & others that petitioned the King to return to His Parliament. 2. Originally: a member of an ancient tribe of people reputed to have unusually long skulls; = macrocephalus n. 1. In later use also: a person with a dolichocephalic skull. Cf. short head n. (a) at short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [noun] > types of skull > person having macrocephalus1626 long head1650 microcephalus1848 brachycephales1863 dolichocephali1863 brachistocephali1866 mecistocephali1866 Mesocephali1866 roundhead1867 microcephale1873 microcephalic1873 dolichocephal1876 mesorrhinian1878 mesocephal1883 short head1883 mesorrhine1885 platyrrhine1886 brachycephal1901 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 2 There were found many Macrocephali among them, that is, such Long-heads as no other Nation had the like. 1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 292 Hippocrates tells us, that among our Ancestors, the Scythians, there was a Nation call'd, Longheads. 1844 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 18 373 His [sc. Retzius] first division of the nations of men is into Dolicocephalæ and Brachycephalæ; the long-heads being, of course, those whose cerebral lobes completely cover the cerebellum, the short-heads, those in whom they do not. 1890 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Nov. 757 The tall blond long-heads practically disappear. 1900 Daily News 31 July 6/5 The wanderings of the long heads over the Western hemisphere are traced by their monuments. 1946 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 93/2 Hippocrates..uses the accepted views of his times to account for the physical divergence of the ‘Long-heads’. 2006 S. Wichmann tr. S. Arvidsson Aryan Idols v. 278 The Indo-German long-heads could never have built up the European culture without help from the agriculture of the older short-skulls. 3. slang. a. An aptitude for calculation or forethought; shrewdness, intelligence. Esp. in to have a long head. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] i-witc888 anyitOE understandinga1050 ferec1175 skillwisenessa1200 quaintisec1300 brainc1325 cunning1340 reder1340 cunningnessa1400 sentencec1400 intelligence?1435 speculation1471 ingeny1474 cunningheadc1475 capacity1485 pregnancyc1487 dexterity1527 pregnance?1533 shift1542 wittiness1543 ingeniousness1555 conceitedness1576 pate1598 conceit1604 ingeniosity1607 dexterousness1622 talent1622 ingenuousness1628 solertiousnessa1649 ingenuity1651 partedness1654 brightness1655 solerty1656 prettiness1674 long head1694 long lega1705 cleverness1755 smartness1800 cleverality1828 brain power1832 knowledgeability1834 braininess1876 cerebrality1901 1694 tr. N. Rémond des Cours True Conduct Persons of Quality lxxv. 176 They who..have a vast Reach, and a long Head, wherewith to penetrate into Intrigues. 1710 Tatler 29 June 6 These are your persons of long heads, who would fain make the world believe their thoughts and ideas very much superior to their neighbours. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 98 He cou'd make clear baith B's and A's Wi' his lang head. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. viii. 445 He had a long head, as well as a fanciful brain. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. 102 That reprobate had a long head on those same fustigated shoulders. 1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) 134 He has always had luck, and he has a long head too. 1913 W. N. Harben Desired Woman i. iv. 55 He has a long head on him—never gets excited and seldom makes a wrong move in a deal. 1951 W. W. Coblientz From Life Researcher x. 121 And when I told him of my intention..he remarked, ‘You have a long head.’ b. A shrewd or intelligent person. Occasionally somewhat depreciative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > intelligent person wit1508 callent1637 intelligent1640 headpiece1647 intelligence1648 long head1744 intellect1842 sharpshins1883 brain1914 brain-box1942 brainiac1975 1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. i. 24 That Gentleman who spoke to you first is one of the sharpest Men I know; he is one of the Long-heads, and much too wise to let anyone impose on him. 1798 J. Redman Will in Athenaeum (1880) 365/3 Answers intended by the longheads of the law, fatheads of the Church, and wiseheads of an insolent, usurping aristocracy. 1865 J. Campbell Short Amer. Tramp xiv. 284 Now this process did not produce uniformity in the growth of a town which only a few long heads foresaw in the swamp. 1890 Punch 22 Feb. 85/2 Luck, Law, and the Longheads, Have arranged the world. 1932 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 2 Aug. (1964) 498 I did not destinate to signify that you were a wiseacre..but..that you were..a longhead,..as are so many epigrammatists, wit-worms, [etc.]. 1962 N. E. Whitten in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 75 312 The longhead said that the woman had put her ‘monthly’ (menstrual blood) into the beer, making Edward desire her. 2008 New York Sun (Nexis) 14 June 9 He told an audience of chin-pullers and longheads at the Brookings Institution that he might consider running for president in 2008. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1642
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