The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pig-headed \Pig"-head`ed\, a.
Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity
obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
--B. Jonson. --
Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of pigheaded English)
Usage examples of "pig-headed".
Smallweed is seated, that she only quite desists when her grandchildren have held her down in it, her lord in the meanwhile bestowing upon her, with great volubility, the endearing epithet of "a pig-headed jackdaw," repeated a surprising number of times.
Strauss, who, in the pig-headed fashion of considerable Americans, despite seemingly unsurmountable and political difficulties and the assurances of his architectural colleagues that his dream was a technical impossibility, just went ahead and built it anyway.