pinhead
/ˈpɪn.hɛd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)
noun
A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in freak shows as "human pinheads".
Slang
Example Sentences
- "The moment the nitre was red hot, the coal, previously reduced to small pieces of the size of a pinhead, was projected in portions of one or two grains at a time…"
- "Settlements some centuries old, and still no bigger than pinheads on the untouched expanse of their background."
- "I don't want to be a pinhead no more / I just met a nurse that I could go for"
- "My daddy repairs cars driven by women who are pinheads."
- "Percy, who hadn't noticed that Fred had bewitched his prefect badge so that it now read "Pinhead," kept asking them all what they were sniggering at."
- "The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile."