lustihead

noun

lustihead

noun

Etymology From Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed; equivalent to lusty + -head. Compare lustihood.

1

Obsolete Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.

  • in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate, / And all of loue, and all of lusty-hed [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  • 1909, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven In the rash lustihead of my young powers, / I shook the pillaring hours / And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, / I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— / My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.

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