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beastlyhead en · NOUN

Etymology

From beastly + -head (“-hood”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) The character or quality of a beast; beastliness.
    • Sicke, sicke, alas! and little lack of dead, / But I be relieved by your beastlyhead. 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC: