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Definition: Hothead |
HotheadNoun1. A belligerent grouch. 2. A reckless impetuous irresponsible person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HotheadSynonyms: daredevil (n), fire-eater (n), harum-scarum (n), lunatic (n), madcap (n), swashbuckler (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hothead (1963) Pete Hothead (1952) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Hothead" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hothead" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
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 |
hothead paisan | 10 |
hothead | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hothead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri i rrëmbyer, njeri i papërmbajtur (fury, Hotspur), njeri i nxituar, njeri gjaknxehtë (pepper-box). (various references) | |
Arabic | متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eager, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, impassioned, keen, passionate, strenuous, warm, zealot, zealous), شخص متهور, شخص عجول. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | луда глава (hot-brain), буйна глава. (various references) | |
Czech | horká hlava (hot blood). (various references) | |
French | impétueux (hotheaded), exalté (hot-headed). (various references) | |
German | hitzkopf (hotspur, spitfire). (various references) | |
Greek | θερμοκέφαλοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חמום מוח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hirtelen ember (hot-head), meggondolatlan ember (giddy pate, hot-head). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemberangsang, pemberang (bad-tempered, hotheaded), berandalan (lihat: berandal, madcap). (various references) | |
Italian | testa calda. (various references) | |
Manx | fergagh (angry, ferocious, furious, glowering, hot-tempered, indignant, passion, raging), fer mollee, eulyssagh (ferocious, furious person, indignant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otheadhay.(various references) | |
Romanian | om furios, impetuos (dashing, fiercely, headlong, heady, high-spirited, hot-headed, impetuous, impetuously, raging, rash, robustious, stormy, tumultuous, tumultuously), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid). (various references) | |
Russian | горячая голова (hot-brain), забияка (blusterer, rooster, scrapper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | usijana glava (hot-brain). (various references) | |
Spanish | impetuoso (headstrong, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, violent), fanático (addict, addicted, bigot, bigoted, fanatic, fanatical, fiend, hot-brained, hotheaded, rabid, zealot), extremista (extremist, hotheaded, zealot), exaltado (ebullient, elated, emotional, exalted, excitable, extreme, far out, hotheaded, impassioned, intense, light-headed, mad person, overexcited, worked up). (various references) | |
Swedish | brushuvud (hot-head). (various references) | |
Turkish | sinirli tip, asabi kimse (sorehead, spitfire). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гаряча голова, запальна людина (pepper-box, wildcat). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người nóng vội (hotbrain), người nóng nảy (hotbrain, pepper-pot), người bộp chộp (hotbrain, light-head, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hothead": hotheaded, hotheadedly, hotheadedness, hotheadednesses, hotheads. (additional references) | |
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"Hothead" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hochwald, hoo-hee, Hothar, Othea. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-h-o-t" | |
-2 letters: death, doeth, hated, heath. | |
-3 letters: date, dato, doat, dote, doth, eath, hade, haed, haet, hate, hath, head, heat, heth, hoed, oath, odea, ohed, thae, toad, toea, toed. | |
-4 letters: ado, ate, dah, doe, dot, eat, edh, eta, eth, had, hae, hah, hao, hat, heh, het, hod, hoe, hot, oat, ode, tad, tae, tao, tea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-h-o-t" | |
+1 letter: hotheads. | |
+2 letters: hotheaded, hydathode. | |
+3 letters: fatherhood, heathendom, hydathodes. | |
+4 letters: diphosphate, fatherhoods, hardmouthed, heathendoms, hotheadedly, phosphatide, shorthaired, shorthanded. | |
+5 letters: crosshatched, diphosphates, hectographed, hemichordate, hydropathies, hydrotherapy, hydrothermal, hypothecated, lithographed, phosphatides, phosphatized, photocathode, photographed, shortchanged, wholehearted. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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