hothead
pronunciation
How to pronounce hothead in British English:
UK [ˈhɒthed]
How to pronounce hothead in American English:
US [ˈhɑthed]
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- Noun:
- a belligerent grouch
- a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
Word Origin
- hothead (n.)
- "short-tempered person," 1650s, from hot in the figurative sense + head (n.); Johnson's dictionary also lists hotmouthed "headstrong, ungovernable;" Elizabethan English had hot-brain "hothead" (c. 1600); and Old English had hatheort "anger, rage," literally "hot heart."
Example
- 1. Hothead was I not enough for you ?
- 2. Your boy get jealous ? Sure . He 's a hothead .
- 3. Huo yuanjia had become an arrogant hothead who was always spoiling for a fight .
- 4. Hothead , I really messed up .
- 5. But not a hothead , with blossoms turn , will be generous with good .