sb. and a. Also wrong-head. [f. WRONG a. + HEAD sb.]
A. sb. A perverse or wrong-headed person; one who displays perversity of judgment.
1729. Mandeville, Fab. Bees, II. p. v. There really are such Wrongheads in the World, as will fancy Vices to be encouraged, when they see them expos’d.
1737. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. 168. The Family of the Wrong-Heads is … a very numerous one.
1753. trans. Genard’s School of Man, 189. The part of … a wronghead acted to perfection.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XII. 630. There is another point on which ‘the Wrongheads’ are equally mistaken.
1853. Trench, Proverbs, 57. Obstinate wrongheads, who will take no counsel except from calamities.
B. adj. = WRONG-HEADED a.
1732. Pope, Hor. Sat., II. ii. 148. This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.
1850. Lever, R. Cashel, liii. Tiernay is in one of his wrong-head humours.
