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单词 flat-head
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flat-headn.adj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflat-head.
A. n.
1.
a. One who has a flat head; spec. a member of a North American Indian people named from their supposed practice of flattening their children's heads artificially.The people now commonly known by this appellation is the Selish or Hopilpo; but ‘they do not flatten the heads of their children, and appear never to have done so; the name Flathead being at first applied to them by mistake’ ( Encycl. Amer. 1886).
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of Great Basin and Plateau > [noun]
snake1791
Kutenai1801
Pierced Nose1805
Shoshone1805
Tillamook1806
Wallawalla1806
Nez Perce1811
Ute1826
Paiute1827
Spokane1831
Sahaptin1836
flat-head1837
Shuswap1838
Twana1838
Salish1843
Molale1844
Washoe1846
Yakima1852
Skokomish1854
Klamath1890
1837 T. P. Thompson Lett. Representative 2nd Ser. 30 There are flat-heads there [i.e. in Sierra Leone] as in other countries.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 121 The Flathead levelled his piece, and brought the Blackfoot to the ground.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlviii. 110 The Chinooks..correctly come under the name of Flat Heads, as they are almost the only people who strictly adhere to the custom of squeezing and flattening the head.
1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man II. xxii. 305 The strange practice of the American Flatheads far to the north-east of the Altai chain.
b. A fool, simpleton. dialect and slang.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun]
boinarda1300
daffc1325
goky1377
nicea1393
unwiseman1400
totc1425
alphinc1440
dawc1500
hoddypeak1500
dawpatea1529
hoddypolla1529
noddy1534
kimec1535
coxcomb1542
sheep1542
sheep's head1542
goose1547
dawcock1556
nodgecock1566
peak-goosea1568
hottie tottie?c1570
Tom Towly1582
wittol1588
goose-cap1589
nodgecomb1592
ninny1593
chicken1600
fopdoodle16..
hoddy-noddy1600
hoddy-doddy1601
peagoose1606
fopster1607
nazold1607
nupson1607
wigeon1607
fondrel1613
simpleton1639
pigwidgeon1640
simpletonian1652
Tony1654
nizy1673
Simple Simon?1673
Tom Farthing1674
totty-head1680
cockcomb1684
cod1699
nikin1699
sap-pate1699
simpkin1699
mackninnya1706
gilly-gaupus?1719
noodle1720
sapskull1735
gobbin?1746
Judy1781
zanya1784
spoony1795
sap-head1798
spoon1799
gomerel1814
sap1815
neddy1818
milestone1819
sunket1823
sunketa1825
gawp1825
gawpy1825
gawpus1826
Tomnoddy1826
Sammy1828
tammie norie1828
Tommy1828
gom1834
noodlehead1835
nowmun1854
gum-sucker1855
flat-head1862
peggy1869
noodledum1883
jay1884
toot1888
peanut head1891
simp1903
sappyhead1922
Arkie1927
putz1928
steamer1932
jerk-off1939
drongo1942
galah1945
Charley1946
nong-nong1959
mouth-breather1979
twonk1981
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 50 Ah tell'd him 'at he hedn't t'sense 'at he wur born wi'—a big flathead.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxiii. 198 Greenhorns, flatheads!
1902 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 2/1 ‘G'n, ye little flathead,’ he said admonishingly, ‘folks don't get headaches here.’
1922 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 29 Dec. in Performing Flea (1953) 19 Your stuff is really too good for the ordinary magazine, so that when you don't have a plot which is all right for the flatheads anyway, editors are apt to turn you down.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 29 Flathead, a simpleton or fool.
1966 New Statesman 6 May 654/2 Gobbledygook is the defence of the American intellectual aware of the hostile mockery of the surrounding flatheads.
2. Australia. The local name for a fish of the genus Ceratodus.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > [noun] > order Dipnoi > group Sirenoidei > genus Ceratodus > member of
mudfish1502
flat-head1832
barramundi1873
ceratodus1874
1832 J. Bischoff Sketch Hist. Van Diemen's Land ii. 32 The market of Hobart Town is supplied with small rock cod, flat-heads, and a fish called the perch.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. xii. 386 A good basket of schnappers and flatheads.
3. U.S. ‘A snake which flattens its head, as a species of Heterodon’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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1888 Bergen in Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 660 The blow-snake of Illinois is variously known in other localities as hog-nose, flat-head, viper, and puff-adder.
4.
a. Architecture. An ornament of an archivolt with a flat uncarved surface.
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1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. Flat-heads, an ornament peculiar to the Romano-Byzantine period, which decorates archivolts.
b. A flat stone surmounting a pillar. U.S.
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1838 Knickerbocker Mag. 11 518 Often have the flat heads of the gate-posts served as a platform to the branches.
B. adj. (attributive).
Having a flat head or top.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [adjective] > having flat top
platformed1632
tabulated1681
flat-headed1752
nail-headed1801
table-topped1821
tabular1826
flat-head1874
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 878/1 Flat-head Nail, a forged nail with a round, flat head.
1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 311/1 The flat-head houses of Brooklyn.

Compounds

flat-head adder n. = sense 3.
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1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 10 I have known the Flat-head Adder or Blowing Viper, Heterodon platyrhinos, to eat the heads of the common eel.
flat-head horse n.
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a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent vii. 68 The little villain's mount was a red roan, a Flat-head horse.
flat-head Indian n. = sense 1.
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1847 P. J. de Smet Oregon Missions 33 Father De Smet..was sent on a visit..to the Flathead Indians.
1879 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 837/1 In a legend of the Flathead Indians.

Derivatives

flat-head v. transitive to flatten the head of.
ΚΠ
a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1862) 204 One infant..was being flat-headed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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