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headdesked

headdesked is the simple past and past participle of headdesk.

Meaning of headdesk

Verb

headdesk (third-person singular simple present headdesks, present participle headdesking, simple past and past participle headdesked)

  1. (slang) To bang one's head against the desk in frustration; (by extension) to express annoyance or exasperation.
    • Hopefully this will save someone else some head-desking; I'll see about writing up a patch for the docs describing this (unless I discover that I've been blind and this is, indeed, documented somewhere). :-D2006 August 8, Tom Tobin, “Re: MR: _manipulator_validate_FIELD() methods?”, in django-users (Usenet), retrieved 08 Feb 2017, message-ID <1fb3de5c0608081824j766463g52e109c405b18105@mail.gmail.com>

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Questions about headdesked

What is headdesked the simple past and past participle of?
Headdesked is the simple past and past participle of headdesk.

Words near headdesked in the dictionary

  1. headcrest
  2. headcrests
  3. headcut
  4. headcuts
  5. headdesk
  6. headdesked
  7. headdesking
  8. headdesks
  9. headdress
  10. headdressed
  11. headdresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headdesked (page history and authors); headdesk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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