baldhead

English

Etymology

bald + head

Noun

baldhead (plural baldheads)

  1. A person whose head is bald.
    • Bible, 2 Kings 2:23
      Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!"
  2. A white-headed variety of pigeon.
  3. (Rastafarianism) A person who is not Rastafarian.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for baldhead in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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