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ˈwronghead, n. and a.
Also wrong-head.
[f. wrong a. + head n.1]
A. n. A perverse or wrong-headed person; one who displays perversity of judgement.
1729Mandeville Fab. Bees ii. p. v, There really are such Wrongheads in the World, as will fancy Vices to be encouraged, when they see them expos'd. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) I. 168 The Family of the Wrong-Heads is..a very numerous one. 1753tr. Genard's School of Man 189 The part of..a wronghead acted to perfection. 1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 630 There is another point on which ‘the Wrongheads’ are equally mistaken. 1853Trench Proverbs 57 Obstinate wrongheads, who will take no counsel except from calamities.
B. adj. = wrong-headed a.
1732Pope Hor. Sat. ii. ii. 148 This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. 1850Lever R. Cashel liii, Tiernay is in one of his wrong-head humours. |