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An ignorant or foolish person
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pinhead
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pinhead is the head of a pin . Pinhead , in reference to a person, may also mean: People : A person with microcephaly Zip the Pinhead , a circus performer of the late 19th and early 20th century Fictional characters Zippy the Pinhead , a comic strip character ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell , dummy , dope , boob , booby ] the head of a pin
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pin-head , "head of a pin," 1660s, from pin (n.) + head (n.). Meaning "person of small intelligence" is from 1896.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I have to deal with pinheads like him all day at work. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Grains the size of a pinhead are ideal. ▪ It triggered an image of a diver shooting to the surface with a pinhead of breath, his arm like Excalibur. ...
Usage examples of pinhead.
He could see three small moons, one at the horizon, about the size of his little fingernail, and two scarcely more than pinheads, overhead.
Remove the shrouding, and the pinhead itself is tiny enough to be implanted in a tooth.
It placed a miniaturized nest of embryonic robots, no larger than pinheads, within the card file, then a tiny find-circuit transmitter behind a subsequent card, then at last a potent detonating device set on a three-day command circuit.
While Omar crushed two hard-boiled eggs, shells and all, into the feed pan, I measured out cracked Flint corn and pinhead oats.
It would take, of course, the area of about a million pinheads because, instead of there being just the 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia, there are 24 million volumes.