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bald-headed, a.
a. = bald a. bald-headed eagle, the bald eagle.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Chauve par devant, baldheaded. 1632Massinger City Mad. iv. ii, Thy proper and bald-headed coachman. 1829J. MacTaggart Three Years in Canada I. 22, I had seen a couple of bald-headed eagles the day before. 1836M. A. Holley Texas v. 100 The bald-headed eagle and the Mexican eagle..are very common. 1863Kemble Resid. Georgia 68 A magnificent bald-headed eagle. 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 214/2 The subject..is the bald-headed eagle..the original of ‘Uncle Sam's bird’.
b. colloq. phr. (orig. U.S.) to go bald-headed (into, for, at), to stake everything, to disregard consequences, to attack without care or thought; also to go it bald-headed. Hence bald-ˈheadedly adv. (in similar sense).
1848Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. vi. 79 ‘Pious editor’ x, I scent wich pays the best, an’ then Go into it baldheaded. 1867Ibid. Ser. ii. Introd., ‘To go it bald-headed’: in great haste, as where one rushes out without his hat. 1888Pall Mall Gaz. 22 June 4/2 The Chicago Republicans, to use an Americanism, have gone ‘baldheaded’ for Protection. 1915W. J. Gordon Flags of World 77 Warburg, where the colonel of the Blues, the Marquis of Granby, after a high trot of five miles led them hatless in the charge, ‘going bald-headed for the enemy’, and thus originated the well-known phrase. 1920W. J. Locke House of Baltazar v. 61 Quong Ho..tried..zealously, then desperately, then bald-headedly, but never a wild blow could pass the easy guard of his smiling master. 1942R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan 116 A sensible man does not go bald-headed into a brain-twister. 1960M. Stewart My Brother Michael xiv. 180 You went bald-headed for the poor chap. |