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Definition of Bigheaded
1. Adjective. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant. "They're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Snoot, Snot, Uppishness
Definition of Bigheaded
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of big-headed) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bigheaded
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bigheaded
Literary usage of Bigheaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1895)
"... for his sake, the bigheaded little fishes in the pools among the rocks, or
digging, ankle-deep in the ooze, for worms in the mudbanks of the river. ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"Arnold has heen having his own way so long up in this section that he's got
bigheaded and I hope you will stop him by turning her loose. ..."
3. The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of by Clinton Hart Merriam (1910)
"The power of certain personages or divinities - as Ke'-lok the North Giant,
Sah'-te the Weasel-man, and O-wah'-to the bigheaded Lizard — to use fire as a ..."
4. Lectures on Man: His Place in Creation, and in the History of the Earth by James Hunt, Karl Christoph Vogt (1864)
"... the vengeance of God came over them, for the bigheaded Helvetians, also from
Asia, came over them, slew them, and burnt them out. 0 sancta simplicitas ! ..."
5. The Man Who Married the Moon by Charles F. Lummis (2001)
"... (bigheaded little boy). Among the other villages that heard of his prowess
was Nah-choo-rée-too-ee, all of whose people “had the bad road. ..."
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