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headie

headie noun: the head.

Noun

headie (plural headies)

  1. (childish) The head.
    • “Poor ’Rallie,” cried Babs, sympathizingly, “does your headie ache?” The Admiral drew out his head, and looked at the child very mournfully indeed.1900, [William] Gordon Stables, The Island of Gold: A Sailor’s Yarn, London; Edinburgh; New York, N.Y.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, page 197
    • Várenka greeted him with a searching glance, and the amiable query: “is your headie better?” “Yes, thank you . . .” he replied drily, seating himself at a distance from her, and thinking to himself: “She does not even know how to speak: ‘is your headie better?’ indeed!”1901, Maxim Gorky [pseudonym; Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], “Várenka Ólesoff”, in Isabel F[lorence] Hapgood, transl., Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade, New York, N.Y.: Charles...

Examples of headie in a sentence

  • Rockaby baby, go to sleep baby, / Nestle your headie on mama’s own breast.1921, A[ndrew] J[ohn] C[alvin] Lowe, “Lullaby”, in Unpolished Pebbles: A Collection of Original Poems, [Osawatomie, Kan.]: [Olos Lowe...
  • With a wing on the right, / They lay down their headies / And sleep through the night.1966, James Hoffman, Joan Hoffman, Prekindergarten Discoveries, Minneapolis, Minn.: T. S. Denison & Company, page 98, column 2:
  • And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.1996, Antonio Skármeta, translated by Jonathan Tittler, Love-Fifteen, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, →ISBN, page...
  • “[…] The band is giving me a headache.” “Music hurt your headie?” “A little bit.”1998, Stephen King, Bag of Bones, Scribner, →ISBN, page 342:

Forms of headie

pluralheadies

Origin of headie

From head + -ie. Piecewise doublet of chiefie.

Questions about headie

What does headie mean?
Headie means the head.
How do you use headie in a sentence?
Rockaby baby, go to sleep baby, / Nestle your headie on mama’s own breast.
What part of speech is headie?
Headie is a noun.
What is the plural of headie?
The plural of headie is headies.

Words near headie in the dictionary

  1. headhunter
  2. headhunters
  3. headhunting
  4. headhuntings
  5. headhunts
  6. headie
  7. headier
  8. headies
  9. headiest
  10. headily
  11. headin'

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