Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
pig-headed en · ADJ
Meanings
-
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of pigheaded.
That he was a great locomotive engineer, it would be foolish to deny or even to qualify; that he was also extremely pig-headed is fairly evidenced by David Joy, who in his 'Diaries' said that Stroudley always wanted his way 'to the last nut and bolt.'
1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234:If the dear old emotional, pig-headed, Rule-Britannia! public had got it that French spies were stalking through the land at this crisis, then, indeed, the fat would have been in the fire!
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
Forms