hothead
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hothead (ˈhɒtˌhɛd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| an excitable or fiery person | |
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Hothead
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
hothead
"short-tempered person," 1660, from hot + head; Johnson's dictionary also lists hotmouthed "headstrong, ungovernable."
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Example sentences
The parent generation had a mutant version of a gene dubbed hothead, which causes the plants to have fused flowers.
No hothead nationalist can close borders to a neighbour's goods.
Be careful the next time some hothead cuts you off in traffic.
There is no point in preaching non-violent action to a hothead, but a scholarly individual might be receptive to certain ideas.
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