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Hothead

Definition: Hothead

Hothead

Noun

1. A belligerent grouch.

2. A reckless impetuous irresponsible person.

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

 

Synonyms: Hothead

Synonyms: daredevil (n), fire-eater (n), harum-scarum (n), lunatic (n), madcap (n), swashbuckler (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Hothead

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Hothead (1963)

Pete Hothead (1952)

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

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Commercial Usage: Hothead

DomainTitle

Books

  • Complete Hothead Paisan (reference)

  • Fugitive Information: Essays from a Feminist Hothead (reference)

  • The Revenge of Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Usage Frequency: Hothead

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hothead

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hothead paisan

10

hothead

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Hothead

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hothead

Derivations

Words beginning with "hothead": hotheaded, hotheadedly, hotheadedness, hotheadednesses, hotheads. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Hothead

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.

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INDEX

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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