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hammerheaded

hammerheaded is the alternative form of hammer-headed.

Meaning of hammer-headed

Adjective

hammer-headed (not comparable)

  1. Having a head in the shape of a hammer.
    • To make you merry that are the Gods of Art, and guides vnto heauen, a number of rude Vulcans, vnweldy ſpeakers, hammer-headed clownes (for ſo it pleaſeth them in modeſtie to name themſelues) haue ſet their deformities to view, as it were in a daunce here before you.1600, Thomas Nash, “The Epilogue”, in A Pleasant Comedie, Called Summers Last Will and Testament, London: […] Simon Stafford, for Walter Burre, →OCLC, signature I2, verso
  2. (idiomatic) Stupid, ignorant.
    • We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text

Forms of hammerheaded

comparativemore hammerheaded
superlativemost hammerheaded

Questions about hammerheaded

What is hammerheaded the alternative form of?
Hammerheaded is the alternative form of hammer-headed.

Words near hammerheaded in the dictionary

  1. hammerhead ribozymes
  2. hammerhead shark
  3. hammerhead sharks
  4. hammerhead turn
  5. hammerhead turns
  6. hammerheaded
  7. hammerheads
  8. hammerin'
  9. hammering
  10. hammering away
  11. hammering home

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