big-headedadj.

1614 W. Lithgow Most Delectable Disc. Peregrination sig. I Hee was in proportion of a meane stature, liuely faced, big-headed, eloquent in language, of a sanguinicall complexion, and a couragious stomacke.

1698 L. Milbourne Notes Dryden's Virgil sig. N1 Virgil says, big Headed, and long Neck'd, but so small a difference breaks no squares.

1743 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds I. 21 There is no Genus of European Birds to which I can liken this Bird: It is pretty big-headed, round-body'd, short-tail'd and leg'd.

1776 A. Sparrman tr. N. R. von Rosenstein Dis. Children & Remedies xxiv. 283 There have been some such big headed children who, to our great surprize, have lived in this piteous condition from three to four, nay to ten and fifteen years.

1855 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 6 511 The original English breed [of hogs]—those long-legged,..slouch-eared, big-headed..animals.

1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. xvi. 376 I killed two [snakes] of a very abundant species, big-headed and of a bright green colour.

1921 E. Step Brit. Insect Life vii. 103 A commoner example of these devouring Insects is the Big-headed Broscus (Broscus cephalotes)... Its big-headed appearance is helped largely by the size and convexity of the fore-body.

1960 M. Burton Wild Animals Brit. Isles 155 Their form is more graceful and not ‘big headed’.

2001 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 7 Nov. d1 A giant frog with outsized legs, a big-headed horse and a monkey chattering on a telephone.

1860 Monthly Relig. Mag. Apr. 269 Big-headed men pour in here every day, and pour out again, terribly in earnest about something.

1892 A. Bierce Black Beetles in Amber 219 This pig-headed, big-headed, singularly self-conceited Governor Nonwaterman.

1959 J. Braine Vodi xii. 166 The selfish big-headed, hard-hearted young lover.

1960 P. Hastings Sandals for my Feet i. vii. 71 It was the duty of a sister not to let her sister get big-headed.

2007 Coventry Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 3 Nov. 28 We need to keep our feet on the ground, and not get too big-headed and think that smaller teams are going to be easier.

1850 L. M. Budgen Episodes Insect Life 2nd Ser. 73 A contrast to many of his pigmy order, frightful in big-headedness, or bulk of limb.

1967 A. Laski Seven Other Years xiii. 178 Without undue bigheadedness she could see at a glance that they weren't in the running.

2005 Press Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) (Nexis) 7 Dec. (Sports Day section) 1 The loss cured the Cougars of big-headedness and propelled them to the championship game.