[1945–50, Amer.; head + shrink + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: RNA, individual medley, on-line, regression analysis, taxi squad-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'headshrinker' in a sentence
headshrinker
Ah, but 'the challenge to introverts is not to feel like outsiders in their own culture' warns one online headshrinker.