pinhead
/ˈpɪnhɛd
/noun
1The round head of a pin.The same printer that publishes Bible verses on pinheads prints the radio frequencies on sectional charts.
1.1A very small round object or mark: [as modifier]: pinhead dots...
- But instead of buckyballs, they spice the mixture with nano-size semiconducting wires or pinheads called quantum dots.
- A rash of pink-red spots the size of pinheads usually appears shortly after the glands swell.
- Within two weeks the dots grew to the size of pinheads, and stayed that way for months.
2 informal A stupid or foolish person.That's something that you and your stupid newspaper would never do, you pinhead....
- Fresh new pinheads in tuxes and cocktail dresses to look at in the society pages!
- The cell phone was never envisioned as an instrument of torture that garrulous pinheads could use to inflict pain on their fellow commuters, yet this is what it has become.
