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Synonyms for hothead
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : hot-hed |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɒtˌhɛd |
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Définition of hothead
Origin :- "short-tempered person," 1650s, from hot in the figurative sense + head (n.); Johnson's dictionary also lists hotmouthed "headstrong, ungovernable;" Elizabethan English had hot-brain "hothead" (c.1600); and Old English had hatheort "anger, rage," literally "hot heart."
- As in demagogue : noun agitating person
- He feared no living man, but he was no hothead to be drawn from his purpose.
- Extract from : « A Daughter of Raasay » by William MacLeod Raine
- A hothead suggested that she should be driven from the town.
- Extract from : « The Magnificent Montez » by Horace Wyndham
- He's savin' that hothead kid the blood of a killin' on his hands.
- Extract from : « The Man in the Twilight » by Ridgwell Cullum
- A hothead like you will benefit by a period of quiet meditation.
- Extract from : « Humphrey Bold » by Herbert Strang
- My dear Hothead, they are big enough to look out for themselves.
- Extract from : « The Vision Spendid » by William MacLeod Raine
- Had I told him, he had disobeyed his orders and shamed his service; he is young yet, and a hothead!
- Extract from : « Told in the East » by Talbot Mundy
- But if he insists on forcing battle with a reluctant adversary, he must be a hothead indeed.
- Extract from : « Helmet of Navarre » by Bertha Runkle
- The probable result of warning would be to drive the hothead to some dire act of foolishness.
- Extract from : « The Triumph of John Kars » by Ridgwell Cullum
- "No you don't," as the hothead raised the pistol again, when the train coughed its way toward them.
- Extract from : « Mountain » by Clement Wood
- The role of firebrand and hothead, drawing villainous knives on frightened boys, would not quite convince his present audience.
- Extract from : « The Varmint » by Owen Johnson
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