Jolt-headed

a. ? Obs. [f. prec. + -ED².] Having a ‘jolt head,’ i.e., a large, clumsy or heavy head; thick-headed. Now only fig.

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1552. Huloet, Cholt headed felow, whose heade is as greate as a betle or mall, tuditanus.

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1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 274. A kind of jolt-headed Gudgeons.

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1865. trans. Hugo’s Hunchback, V. iii. (Chapman & Hall), 169. ’Twas cruel to make a Tantalus of the jolt-headed cub.

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