bighead
noun/ˈbɪɡˌhɛd/
Etymology From big + head.
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Colloquial, Especially, Used by children A person with an inflated opinion of themselves; a conceited or arrogant person.
- He is such a bighead and so lazy that I don't know how far he will go. He can read and write English a little bit and he thinks that is enough for him to know.1997, Virginia Watson, Anyan's Story: A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds, page 174:
- 'But there are too many egos, way too many. I mean bigheads who are sidetracked by stuff away from football.'2010, Jonathan Wilson, Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches:
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- I'm not such a bighead that I think I can do better than Hugh and Hereman at reclaiming the main island.2011, Linda Hutton, The Wild Thyme Unseen, page 218:
2
Colloquial Any of several species of fish having a large head.
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Colloquial Any of several animal diseases that cause swelling of the head.
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African bighead snake, bighead beaked sandfish, bighead brotula, bighead carp, bighead catfish, bighead catshark, bighead croaker, bighead cusk-eel, bighead dustymaiden, bighead goby, bighead grenadier, bighead grouper, bighead gurnard perch, bighead horkelia, bighead knapweed, bighead mora, bighead pennah croaker, bighead portholefish, bighead pupfish, bighead pygmycudweed, bighead rush, bighead sand perch, bighead sculpin, bighead seahorse, bighead searobin, bighead searsid, bighead sea snake, bighead snailfish, bighead spurdog, bighead straitjackets, bighead threefin, bighead tilefish, bighead whiptail- Related terms
- big-headed, bigheaded, bigheadedness, biggy head, proudling, swellhead, egotist