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Definition of Pinhead

1. Noun. An ignorant or foolish person.

Definition of Pinhead

1. Noun. The head of a pin. Frequently used in size comparisons. ¹

2. Noun. (slang) An ignorant, naïve, foolish, and stupid person. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) A telemark skier ¹

4. Noun. (slang medicine) A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in freak shows as "human pinheads". ¹

5. Noun. (slang pet stores) A newborn cricket used as food for pets. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pinhead

1. the head of a pin [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinhead

Literary usage of Pinhead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin by George Thomas Jackson (1905)
"The pustules are from pinhead to small-pea size and have an inflamed base. (Kig. 5.) Together with the acne and the comedones we meet with milia quite ..."

2. An Introductory Course in Experimental Psychology: A Text-book and by Hubert Gruender (1920)
"Hence you get a very indistinct vision of the pinhead itself and the pinhole ... The pinhead, however, is in a very favorable position to cast a sharp and ..."

3. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"pinhead- to pea-sized, papular or nodular lesions, with reddened buses and ... Numerous pinpoint- to pinhead-sized, pinkish or reddish inflammatory papules. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"They begin as pinhead or small split-pea sized papules of a light pinkish or ... If examined at this period a distinct pit, the size of a small pinhead, ..."

5. A Course in Experimental Psychology by Edmund Clark Sanford (1908)
"Move a pinhead along the imaginary line CD in the figure below, ... The line AB will seem to move downward and to the left as the pinhead goes from D to C, ..."

6. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"Local and left retroperitoneal glands enlarged; peribronchial glands slightly enlarged and hard; enlarged spleen with numerous pinhead sized necrotic areas; ..."

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