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fivehead

fivehead noun: a large forehead.

fivehead: a large forehead
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Noun

fivehead (plural fiveheads)

  1. (humorous) A large forehead.
    • His splashiest trick is balancing a glass of grape juice on his forehead (which is so big, he says, that everyone calls it a fivehead) while playing the ukulele, whistling and doing a backward somersault.1997 October 31, Anita Gates, “Theater Review: Magic That's Made Comic, and Comedy That's Magic”, in The New York Times
    • It also helps that my hair has left for higher ground and instead of a forehead, as the joke goes, I have a fivehead.2008, Gregory Hartley, I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending with Their Body, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 63

Forms of fivehead

pluralfiveheads

Origin of fivehead

Blend of five + forehead. Wordplay based on adding one to the "fore" (homophonous to four) of forehead, thus implying a brow that is larger than average.

Questions about fivehead

What does fivehead mean?
Fivehead means a large forehead.
What part of speech is fivehead?
Fivehead is a noun.
What is the plural of fivehead?
The plural of fivehead is fiveheads.

Words near fivehead in the dictionary

  1. fivefold
  2. fivefold ministry
  3. fivefoldness
  4. fivegram
  5. fivegrams
  6. fivehead
  7. fiveheads
  8. fiveish
  9. fivek
  10. Fiveland
  11. fiveleaf

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