scarehead
/ˈskɛə(ɹ)hɛd/
scarehead noun: an alarming or sensational headline.
Noun
scarehead (plural scareheads)
- An alarming or sensational headline.
- If then he makes a scarehead of it, and gets in three columns of space and as many photographs, it is his just reward.1910, Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat
- Joe sits on the porch rail outside the window perusing the scareheads of an I. W. W. paper.1925, Sidney Coe Howard, They Knew What They Wanted (Doubleday, Page and Company), Act III, page 134.
Verb
scarehead (third-person singular simple present scareheads, present participle scareheading, simple past and past participle scareheaded)
- To write an alarming or sensational headline about.
- As soon as my dead body is found the newspapers will want to know why I did it. I'll tell them. And they may scarehead it as much as they like.1923, ???, “The Young Man Who Wanted to Die”, in Weird Tales^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Weird_Tales_v01n01_(1923-03).djvu/136), page 135
scarehead meaning in Tamil
scarehead in Tamil
- பரபரப்புத் தலைப்புச் செயதி, பரபரப்புத் தலைப்புச் செய்தி
Forms of scarehead
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | scareheads |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | scareheads |
| present participle | scareheading |
| past participle | scareheaded |
| past | scareheaded |
| alternative form | scare-head |
Origin of scarehead
Clipping of scare + headline
Questions about scarehead
- What does scarehead mean?
- Scarehead means an alarming or sensational headline.
- What is scarehead in Tamil?
- Scarehead in Tamil is பரபரப்புத் தலைப்புச் செயதி, பரபரப்புத் தலைப்புச் செய்தி. See Scarehead meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is scarehead?
- Scarehead can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce scarehead?
- Scarehead is pronounced /ˈskɛə(ɹ)hɛd/.
- What is the plural of scarehead?
- The plural of scarehead is scareheads.
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