HOTHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hothead mean? 

• HOTHEAD (noun)
  The noun HOTHEAD has 2 senses:

1. a belligerent grouch

2. a reckless impetuous irresponsible person

  Familiarity information: HOTHEAD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOTHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A belligerent grouch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fire-eater; hothead

Hypernyms ("hothead" is a kind of...):

churl; crank; crosspatch; grouch; grump (a bad-tempered person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A reckless impetuous irresponsible person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

daredevil; harum-scarum; hothead; lunatic; madcap; swashbuckler

Hypernyms ("hothead" is a kind of...):

adventurer; venturer (a person who enjoys taking risks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hothead"):

tearaway (a reckless and impetuous person)

 Context examples 

Then out rides our own little hothead with the patch over his eye, and my Lord Audley with his four Cheshire squires, and a few others of like kidney, and after them went the prince and Chandos, and then the whole throng of us, with axe and sword, for we had shot away our arrows.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)