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cittern-head en · NOUN

Etymology

So called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A blockhead; a dunce.
   • Shall brainless cittern-heads, each jobbernoul, / Pocket the very genius of thy soul? 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:

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