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Definition of Pinheaded
1. Adjective. (slang medicine) Having a head that is unusually tapered or small. ¹
2. Adjective. (slang) Foolish; ignorant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinheaded
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinheaded
Literary usage of Pinheaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller (1871)
"... and pinheaded martinets. The errors of officers such as Lucan and Cardigan
are understood to be all on the side of severity; but in heading their pin, ..."
2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Playground Congress and ... Year Book by Playground Association of America (1909)
"... didn't want the pinheaded preachers buttin' in." The problem, then, in city
and country village alike, is not one of playgrounds, but of play schools. ..."
3. Fur-bearing Animals in Nature and in Commerce by Henry Poland (1892)
"... according to fashion, etc. Few are used in England or in the United States.
pinheaded PERSIAN LAMB. The skin of this animal is also called ..."
4. Luck on the Wing: Thirteen Stories of a Sky Spy by Elmer Haslett (1920)
"In every locality except the front, the common acceptance of the term "hardboiled"
indicated cue who in any position of authority was a pinheaded, ..."
5. Red, White and Blue by Robert Gehring Schaefer (1917)
"This contrary pinheaded self-conviction, self-punished, moral imperfection, is
treason, disguised as pacifism. What man's soul is so dead that he would not ..."
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