a. Having a massive head, broadheaded; fig. blindly impetuous, blockheaded. Hence Bullheadedness.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xviii. They … flourish with their bull-headed obstinacy.
1846. Comic Jack Giant Kill. (ed. 3), 7. This beef-eating, bull-headed, ‘son-of-a-gun.’
1884. F. Britten, Watch & Clockm., 153. See that the pivots are … neither bull headed nor taper.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., I. IV. viii. 465. Rough and stiff as natural bull-headedness helped by Prussian pipeclay can make it.
