subs. (American).—A man of good parts, physical, intellectual, or moral.
1824. R. B. PEAKE, Americans Abroad, i., 1. Dou. None of your flouting, by jumping jigs, I won’t stand it—we Americans have got HARD HEADS—we warn’t brought up in the woods to be scart at by an owl—you can’t scare me so.
1848. DURIVAGE, Stray Subjects, p. 110. Most of the passengers had disappeared for the night, and only a knot of ‘HARD-HEADS’ were left upon deck.
