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lustihead

lustihead noun: lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.

Noun

lustihead (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.
    • in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate, / And all of loue, and all of lusty-hed [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • In the rash lustihead of my young powers, / I shook the pillaring hours / And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, / I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— / My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.1909, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven

Origin of lustihead

From Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed; equivalent to lusty + -head. Compare lustihood.

Questions about lustihead

What does lustihead mean?
Lustihead means lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.
What part of speech is lustihead?
Lustihead is a noun.

Words near lustihead in the dictionary

  1. lustie
  2. lustier
  3. lustiest
  4. Lustig
  5. Lustigs
  6. lustihead
  7. lustihood
  8. lustily
  9. lustiness
  10. lustinesses
  11. lusting

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