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Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈpɪn.hɛd/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)
  2. (slang) An ignorant, naïve, foolish, or stupid person.
  3. (slang) A telemark skier.
  4. (slang, medicine) 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".
  5. (slang, pet stores) A newborn cricket used as food for pets.

Exempel

  • 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…
  • Percy, who hadn't noticed that Fred had bewitched his prefect badge so that it now read "Pinhead," kept asking them all what they were sniggering at.
  • 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.
  • Zip the What-Is-It was simply a Negro idiot. [...] For half an hour at a time, David Belasco used to watch Zip at Coney Island. The producer insisted he saw signs of intelligence in the pinhead [...]
  • A newly hatched gecko will need pretty small crickets, but you will not have to go all the way down to pinheads.
  • Crickets can be purchased in many sizes from newborns ("pinheads") to adults.

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