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Definition: Bighead |
BigheadNoun1. Any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter; cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Medium shot of bighead clover (Trifolium macrocephalum). Credit: John Craig. |  | Closeup shot of bighead clover (Trifolium macrocephalum). Credit: John Craig. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Bighead" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Bighead" is used about 6 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bighead carp | 26 |
bighead | 26 |
asian bighead carp | 18 |
bighead pitbull | 7 |
bighead carp picture | 2 |
bighead monster todd | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bighead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | غرور (arrogance, conceit, delusion, ego, egoism, egotism, pretension, pride, sufficiency, vanity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самовлюбен, самодоволен (airy, cock-a-hoop, complacent, jaunty, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug). (various references) | |
Czech | nafoukanec. (various references) | |
Danish | bighead, megacaphali. (various references) | |
Dutch | bighead. (various references) | |
Finnish | tokko-laji (bighead goby, lagoon gobie, mottled Black Sea goby, Panizza's goby, tubenose goby). (various references) | |
French | mégacéphalie, arrogance. (various references) | |
German | bighead, Schnueffelkrankheit, Krueschkrankheit, Kleiekrankheit. (various references) | |
Greek | μεγαλοκεφαλία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | א"ם י"יר. (various references) | |
Italian | bighead. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igheadbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | megacefalia. (various references) | |
Russian | самовлюбленный (narcissistic), самодовольный (bumptious, cock-a-hoop, complacent, conceited, coxcombical, huffy, po-faced, priggish, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uobražen (assuming, conceited, imaginary, overweening, presuming, pretentious, supercilious, uppish). (various references) | |
Spanish | megacefalia, engreído (bigheaded, bumptious, conceited, snotty nosed, snotty-faced, stuck up, uppity, vain). (various references) | |
Swedish | viktigpetter (cockalorum, smart aleck, smarty-pants, turkey cock), inbilskhet (conceit, vainglory). (various references) | |
Turkish | kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bigheaded, 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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bighead": bigheaded, bigheads. (additional references) | |
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"Bighead" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bageho, bayhead, bihead, boghead, bogheap, Nighean, pighead. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-h-i" | |
-2 letters: abide, badge, gibed. | |
-3 letters: abed, aged, aide, bade, bead, bide, egad, gadi, gaed, gibe, gied, hade, haed, head, hide, hied, idea. | |
-4 letters: age, aid, bad, bag, bah, bed, beg, bid, big, dab, dag, dah, deb, dib, die, dig, edh, gab, gad, gae, ged, ghi, gib, gid, gie, had, hae, hag, hid, hie. | |
-5 letters: ab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-h-i" | |
+1 letter: bigheads. | |
+2 letters: beheading, bigheaded. | |
+3 letters: beheadings, bighearted, bridgehead, debauching, highballed, subheading. | |
+4 letters: backlighted, beshadowing, bridgeheads, harbingered, subheadings. | |
+5 letters: bigheartedly, childbearing, straightbred. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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