• Hotheaded

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    Origin

    hot + headed

    Full definition of hotheaded

    Adjective

    hotheaded

    1. Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
      • 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary—Volume II, ch. 1:Such an opportunity can hardly again occur to an ancient and grey-haired man; and to see it lost by the madcap spleen of a hot-headed boy!
      • 1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat, ch. 18:"But I am!" flashed the young man, as if he had been misunderstood."Listen. You're like all boys—hot-headed an' hasty. Let me talk a little," resumed Anderson.
      • 2012, April 26, Tasha Robinson, Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
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