pinhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪn.hɛd/
rhymes: -ɪnhɛd
Forms: form: pinheads
form: pin-head
form: pin head
Etymology: From pin + head.
Senses: examples: text: The moment the nitre was red hot, the coal, previously reduced to small pieces of the size of a pinhead, was projected in portions of one or two grains at a time…
ref: 1810, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry, Vol. 4, Bell & Bradfute, page 602
text: Settlements some centuries old, and still no bigger than pinheads on the untouched expanse of their background.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:
glosses: The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)
examples: text: I don't want to be a pinhead no more / I just met a nurse that I could go for
ref: 1977, “Pinhead”, in Leave Home, performed by Ramones:
text: My daddy repairs cars driven by women who are pinheads.
ref: 1990, Kindergarten Cop:
text: Percy, who hadn't noticed that Fred had bewitched his prefect badge so that it now read "Pinhead," kept asking them all what they were sniggering at.
ref: 1998, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, page 212:
synonyms: word: doofus
word: dumbbell
word: dunce
word: addle-brain
word: addlehead
word: addle pate
word: airhead
word: baboon
word: beanbrain
word: beetlebrain
word: beetlehead
word: berk
word: bimbo
word: birdbrain
word: blockhead
word: blubberbrain
word: bonehead
word: Boeotian
word: boob
word: bozo
word: brainlet
word: brickhead
word: bubblehead
word: bubble brain
word: bufflehead
word: buffoon
word: Charlie
raw_tags: with "right" and/or "proper"
word: chowderhead
word: chucklehead
word: chump
word: cittern-head
word: clod
word: clodpate
word: clot
word: clown
word: crackhead
word: cretin
word: cuckoo
word: deadhead
word: dimbo
word: dim bulb
word: dimbus
word: dimwit
word: dingbat
word: ding dong
word: dingleberry
word: dingwad
word: dip
word: dipstick
word: doldrum
word: dolt
word: donut
word: doodle
word: doof
word: doofoid
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: drivel
word: drongo
word: drool bucket
word: dullard
word: dumb bunny
word: dumbbell
word: dumb cluck
word: dumbhead
word: dumble
word: dumbling
word: dumbnut
word: dumbo
word: dummkopf
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dunderpate
word: eejit
word: fathead
word: featherbrain
word: fenderhead
word: fleabrain
word: fool
word: fopdoodle
word: galoot
word: gimboid
word: gomer
word: gonk
word: goober
word: goof
word: goofball
word: goofy
word: goose
word: goosecap
word: gorbuson
word: gudgeon
word: halfwit
word: ha'porth
word: hammerhead
word: idiot
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: inbred
word: jackaninny
word: jellybrain
word: jerk
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knothead
word: knucklehead
word: lackwit
word: lamebrain
word: log
word: loggerhead
word: lummox
word: lunk
word: lunkhead
word: maroon
word: meatball
word: meathead
word: mental midget
word: mome
word: momo
word: mongoloid
word: mongtard
word: monkey
word: moron
word: mouth breather
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: muttonhead
word: mutt
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: ninny
word: ninnyhammer
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: noddy
word: noodlehead
word: numbskull
word: oaf
word: peabrain
word: peagoose
word: pillock
word: pigwidgeon
word: pinhead
word: plank
word: plonker
word: prat
word: put
word: putz
word: retard
word: sap
word: saphead
word: schmo
word: silly
word: simp
word: simpleton
word: snapperhead
word: sot
word: space cadet
word: spanner
word: stupe
word: stupid
word: stupid-head
word: tomfool
word: tard
word: thickhead
word: thickskull
word: thicko
word: tonto
word: toolbox
word: tosspot
word: turkey
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzer
word: wazzock
word: witless wonder
word: yo-yo
word: zany
word: Vulgar:
word: ass
word: assclown
word: asshat
word: asshead
word: asstard
word: asswipe
word: buttbreath
word: dildo
word: dipshit
word: donkey dick
word: Alternative spelling of dumbass.
word: dumbfuck
word: dumbfucker
word: dumbshit
word: farthead
word: fuck-knuckle
word: fucktard
word: fuckwit
word: jackass
word: peckerhead
word: shitbrain
word: shithead
word: shitneck
word: shitwit
word: twat
glosses: A foolish or stupid person.
glosses: A telemark skier.
examples: text: The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile.
ref: 1939, Amram Scheinfeld, Morton David Schweitzer, You and Heredity, Frederick A. Stokes Co., page 155:
text: Zip the What-Is-It was simply a Negro idiot. […] For half an hour at a time, David Belasco used to watch Zip at Coney Island. The producer insisted he saw signs of intelligence in the pinhead […]
ref: 1943, Oliver Ramsay Pilat, Sodom by the Sea: An Affectionate History of Coney Island, Garden City Publishing, page 187:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: 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".
examples: text: A newly hatched gecko will need pretty small crickets, but you will not have to go all the way down to pinheads.
ref: 1994, Raymond E. Hunziker, Leopard Geckos, Publisher, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Crickets can be purchased in many sizes from newborns ("pinheads") to adults.
ref: 2000, Manny Rubio, Scorpions: Everything About Purchase, Care, Feeding, and Housing^(http://books.google.com/books?id=XjUwzS7emXQC&pg=PA70&dq=Rubio+newborns-(%22pinheads%22)&lr=&num=20&as_brr=0&sig=rDludfhNOKOBL5uKvEDX_Asvj4Y), Barron's Educational Series, →ISBN, page 70:
qualifier: pet stores
glosses: A newborn cricket used as food for pets.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The immature juvenile fruiting body of a mushroom prior to its gills opening.
Derived terms: count angels on pinheads
pinhead oatmeal
Related terms: pinheaded