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hot-headed, a.|ˈhɒtˌhɛdɪd|
1. Having a hot head (in lit. sense); in quot. 1712, having the head heated, as with liquor. rare.
a1693Aubrey Lives, Harvey (1898) I. 301 He was hott⁓headed, and his thoughts working would many times keepe him from sleepinge. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 77 The women do not dance till they are a little hot-headed.
2. fig. Of an unduly excitable nature or temperament; impetuous, headstrong, fiery, rash.
1641Milton Reform. i. (1851) 20 The blasphemous Jesuits presum'd..to give their judgement of S. Paul, as of a hot headed person. 1688Ld. Delamere Wks. (1694) 17 A hot-headed or rash action. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 12 June, The hot-headed boy is more than ever incensed against Wilson. 1887Spectator 26 Mar. 413/2 Too hot⁓headed and violent for a diplomatist.
Hence hot-ˈheadedly adv., hot-ˈheadedness.
1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxvi, The hotheadedness..of boys in love. 1895Forum (N.Y.) Jan. 524 Some isolated..workmen..did throw themselves hot-headedly into the fray. |