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Definition: Bigheaded |
BigheadedAdjective1. Used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BigheadedSynonyms: persnickety (adj), snooty (adj), snot-nosed (adj), snotty (adj), stuck-up (adj), too big for one's breeches (adj), uppish (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Bigheaded" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Bigheaded" is used about 3 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "bigheaded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i ngushtë (acute, close, close-grained, hard up, incapacious, intimate, narrow, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, petty, poky, provincial, small, small minded, Strait, tight), i kënaqur nga vetja. (various references) | |
Czech | nafoukaný (bumptious, cocksy, cocky, overweening, stuck up), arogantní (arrogant, frosted, overbearing, self confident, smug, snotty, supercilious, uppish). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرافاده (Cocksure, Snobbish, Snooty), مغرور (Haughty, Jaunty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snob, Snobbish, Stuffy, Supercilious, Swagger, Uppish, Vain). (various references) | |
French | crâneur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | besar kepala, sombong (assertive, boastful, egotistic, haughty, plume, proud, uppish, vain, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igheadedbay.(various references) | |
Spanish | engreído (bighead, bumptious, conceited, snotty nosed, snotty-faced, stuck up, uppity, vain). (various references) | |
Turkish | kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-g-h-i" | |
-2 letters: bighead. | |
-3 letters: abided, baddie, badged, beaded, behead, headed, hedged. | |
-4 letters: abide, aided, badge, beige, bided, edged, gaddi, gadid, gibed, haded, hedge, hided. | |
-5 letters: abed, aged, agee, aide, bade, bead, bide, dead, deed, died, edge, egad, eide, gadi, gaed, geed, ghee, gibe, gied, hade, haed, head, hebe, heed, hide, hied, idea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-g-h-i" | |
+1 letter: bridgehead. | |
+2 letters: bridgeheads. | |
+5 letters: featherbedding. | |
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