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baldhead en · NOUN

Etymology

From bald + head.

Meanings

  1. A person whose head is bald.
    • You didn't have to be amongst them to hear it all. It was all in the nodding and twittering of the balls of blue fluff, the back-slapping and hawk-an-spitting of the little old baldheads. 1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 136:
    • 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 baldy; go up, you baldhead!" 2000, World English Bible, 2 Kings 2:23
  2. A white-headed variety of pigeon.
  3. (Rastafari) A person who is not Rastafarian.

Forms

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Synonyms

baldy