headie
nounEtymology From head + -ie. Piecewise doublet of chiefie.
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Childish The head.
- “Poor ’Rallie,” cried Babs, sympathizingly, “does your headie ache?” The Admiral drew out his head, and looked at the child very mournfully indeed.1900, [William] Gordon Stables, The Island of Gold: A Sailor’s Yarn, London; Edinburgh; New York, N.Y.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, page 197:
- Várenka greeted him with a searching glance, and the amiable query: “is your headie better?” “Yes, thank you . . .” he replied drily, seating himself at a distance from her, and thinking to himself: “She does not even know how to speak: ‘is your headie better?’ indeed!”1901, Maxim Gorky [pseudonym; Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], “Várenka Ólesoff”, in Isabel F[lorence] Hapgood, transl., Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 448–449:
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- Rockaby baby, go to sleep baby, / Nestle your headie on mama’s own breast.1921, A[ndrew] J[ohn] C[alvin] Lowe, “Lullaby”, in Unpolished Pebbles: A Collection of Original Poems, [Osawatomie, Kan.]: [Olos Lowe Printing Co.], page 33:
- With a wing on the right, / They lay down their headies / And sleep through the night.1966, James Hoffman, Joan Hoffman, Prekindergarten Discoveries, Minneapolis, Minn.: T. S. Denison & Company, page 98, column 2:
- And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.1996, Antonio Skármeta, translated by Jonathan Tittler, Love-Fifteen, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, →ISBN, page 115:
- “[…] The band is giving me a headache.” “Music hurt your headie?” “A little bit.”1998, Stephen King, Bag of Bones, Scribner, →ISBN, page 342: