pinhead

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)
    — The moment the nitre was red hot, the coal, previously reduced to small pieces of the size of a pinhead, was projected in portions of one or two grains at a time…
  2. A foolish or stupid person. slang
    — I don't want to be a pinhead no more / I just met a nurse that I could go for
  3. A telemark skier. slang
  4. A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in freak shows as "human pinheads". slang
    — The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile.
  5. A newborn cricket used as food for pets. slang
    — A newly hatched gecko will need pretty small crickets, but you will not have to go all the way down to pinheads.
  6. The immature juvenile fruiting body of a mushroom prior to its gills opening.

词形变化

pinheads plural pin-head alternative pin head alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
count angels on pinheads pinhead oatmeal
相关词
pinheaded

词源

From pin + head.
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