Bald-headed

  

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Bald-headed

Definitions: Bald-headed

Bald-headed

Adjective

1. Lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bald-headed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Bald-headed

Synonyms: bald (adj), bald-pated (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: bald (medicine).

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Crosswords: Bald-headed

English words defined with "bald-headed": bald, bald-pated. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bald-headed": Bald, bald-headed anticline. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bald-headed

DomainUsage

Screenplays

This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight. (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

And it's a bald-headed man from New York! (Lost in America; writing credit: Albert Brooks; Monica Mcgowan Johnson)

Jesus H. bald-headed Christ! (Stand by Me; writing credit: Raynold Gideon)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bald-headed

"Bald-headed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bald-headed" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bald-headed

Language Translations for "bald-headed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tullac (bald, calvity). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏شخص أصلع (bald head). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

плешив (bald, calvish). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skaldet (bald). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kaal (bald, bleak), calvus (bald, calvus). (various references)

   

French

  

chauve (bald). (various references)

   

German

  

kahlköpfig (bald, bald headed, baldheaded), glatzköpfig (bald), Calvus (bald, calvus). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φαλακρός (bald, calvus). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kopasz fejû. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

. (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"うとう (aloof, bow deeply, demotion, goodpitching, high class, high grade, highbrow, kowtow, larynx, oral, oral answer, political party, red light, steep price rise, sudden price jump, the imperial line, transcendent). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ald-headedbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

calvo (bald, hairless). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pleşuv (bald, bare, barren, hairless, smooth), chel (bald, hairless, pilgarlic, scalpless, smooth). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лысый (bald, baldheaded, hairless). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ćelav (bald, hairless). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

calvo (bald, bald-pated, hairless, threadbare). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flintskallig (bald). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kel kafalı. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

голомозий (bald), напролом, лисий (bald, bald pate, hairless), плішивий (bald, bald pate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bald-headed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: baldheaded.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-d-e-e-h-l"

-2 letters: baldhead, deadhead.

-3 letters: addable.

-4 letters: addled, balded, beaded, beadle, bedded, behead, beheld, bladed, daddle, daedal, daledh, delead, headed, healed, heddle, leaded.

-5 letters: aahed, abele, added, addle, ahead, baaed, baled, bedel, blade, bleed, dedal, deled, hadal, haded, haled, laded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bald-headed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 6C 64 2D 68 65 61 64 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101100 01100100 00101101 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#108 &#100 &#45 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006C 0064 002D 0068 0065 0061 0064 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3667787015747167707170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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