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idlehead

idlehead noun: one who is vain and foolish. Also the obsolete form of idlehood.

Noun

idlehead (plural idleheads)

  1. One who is vain and foolish.
    • Wee may therefore conclude vpon their own confession against them that if papists neither haue been nor can be loyal to princes, or louing to their country desiring to bring both vnder the pop, & if their seruice be idolatrous, & their doctrine hereticall, and their practis superstitious as iş...1606, Matthew Sutcliffe, The Petition Apolojeticall of Lay Papists, page 95
    • But now St. George must eyther poast away unto the Land of Faeries, and there remaine for ever, with other the Chimeras of an idlehead; or which is worse, bee layde for all eternity in the pit of horrour, with Heretickes and Atheists.1631, Peter Heylyn, The Historie of that Most Famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Iesus St George of Cappadochia, page 36

Also used as

idlehead is also the obsolete form of idlehood.

Examples of idlehead in a sentence

  • Will my visit disabuse you of that confusion, you idleheads?2007, Nickell John Romjue, The Black Box: Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud—stories, page 196:
  • It did ensure, however, that those advance who are serious about dreaming, not just idleheads who can't control their dreams, or can't remember them.2020, Terence Kuch, Five O'Clock on the Sun:

Forms of idlehead

pluralidleheads

Origin of idlehead

A compound from idle + head; compare idleheaded.

From Middle English idelhed, equivalent to idle + -head.

Questions about idlehead

What does idlehead mean?
Idlehead means one who is vain and foolish.
How do you use idlehead in a sentence?
Will my visit disabuse you of that confusion, you idleheads?
What part of speech is idlehead?
Idlehead is a noun.
What is the plural of idlehead?
The plural of idlehead is idleheads.

Words near idlehead in the dictionary

  1. idle wheels
  2. idleby
  3. idled
  4. idledom
  5. idleful
  6. idlehead
  7. idleheaded
  8. idleheads
  9. idlehood
  10. idlely
  11. idleness

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