Pigheaded

Definition: Pigheaded

Pigheaded

Adjective

1. Obstinate and stupid.

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

Date "pigheaded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references)

Synonyms: Pigheaded

You stupid, stubborn, pigheaded numbskull (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

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

Albanian

kokëngjeshur (hardheaded, headstrong, opinionated), kokëbosh (blinker, blockish, clod, empty headed, fop, rattle-brained, rattle-headed). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عنيد مع حماقة, ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded). (various references)

Bulgarian 

твърдоглав (contumacious, die hard, dogged, piggish, self-opinionated, uncompliant, wrongheaded). (various references)

Czech

palièatý (contrary, mulish, recalcitrant, self willed), tvrdohlavý (contrary, headstrong, hell-bent, mulish, opinionated, refractory, self willed, stubborn), svéhlavý (fractious, headstrong, restive, stiff necked, wayward, wilful, willful). (various references)

Finnish

härkäpäinen (obstinate). (various references)

French

obstiné, entêté. (various references)

German

Dickkopf (bullhead), dickköpfig (bullish, stubborn, thickheaded). (various references)

Greek 

βλακωδώσ πεισμών. (various references)

Hungarian

csökönyös (as stubborn as a mule, balky, bullet-headed, froward, hide-bound, indocile, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, ornery, perverse, restive, rusty, wayward, wrong-headed). (various references)

Italian

testardo (bulldog, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, stubborn, wilful, willful), ostinato (determined, headstrong, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, persistent, self willed, single minded, stiff necked, stubborn, tough), cocciuto (stubborn), caparbio (balky, headstrong, restive, stubborn, wayward, wilful, willful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

業突張り (miser, pigheaded person, stubbornness), 強突張り (miser, pigheaded person, stubbornness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うつくばり (miser, pigheaded person, stubbornness). (various references)

Korean 

� 집이 센 (Pig-headed). (various references)

Manx

kione-daaney (bullet-headed, dogged, dour, mulish, opinionated, pertinaceous, recalcitrant, self-opinionated, self-willed, wayward). (various references)

Pig Latin

igheadedpay.(various references)

Portuguese

teimoso (ambivalent, balky, die-hard, dogged, hard-mouthed, headstrong, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, recalcitrant, refractory, self-willed, stiff-necked, strongwilled, stubborn, tough, tumbler, uncompromising, unmanageable, unwilling, wayward, wilful, willful, wrong-headed), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous), casmurro, cabeçudo (big-headed, mule, stubborn). (various references)

Russian 

тупоумный (beef-witted, lumpish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tvrdoglav (crabby, cross-grained, die hard, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, intractable, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, pig-headed, stiff necked, stubborn, willful). (various references)

Spanish

terco (contrary, cussed, dogged, dour, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, self-opinionated, stiff necked, stolid, stout, stubborn, tough), cabezón. (various references)

Swedish

tjurskallig. (various references)

Turkish

inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dogged, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), dik kafalı (fractious, headstrong, heady, intractable, obstinate, pig-headed, rigid, self-opinionated, spiky, stiff necked, strongheaded, unsubmissive). (various references)

Ukrainian

упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), дурний (anserine, asinine, balmy, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, gawky, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, sappy, sottish, spoony, stockish, stupid, thoughtless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngu như lợn; bướng bỉnh, cứng đầu cứng c, đần độn (anserine, blear-eyed, blockish, boeotian, brutish, chuckle-headed, cock-eyed, doltish, fat-headed, fatuous, fat-witted, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, puddingy, purblind, slow-witted, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unapprehensive, witless). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pigheaded": pigheadedly, pigheadedness, pigheadednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pigheaded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peghead, pighead. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: giddap, headed, heaped, hedged.

-4 letters: aided, aphid, edged, gaddi, gadid, gaped, haded, hedge, hided, paged, peage, phage.

-5 letters: aged, agee, aide, aped, dead, deed, deep, died, edge, egad, eide, epha, gadi, gaed, gape, geed, ghee, gied, hade, haed, head, heap, heed, hide, hied, idea, padi, page, paid, peag, peed, pied.

+2 letters: pigheadedly.

+4 letters: pigheadedness, predischarged.