Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lustihead

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lusti-head
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate, / And all of loue, and all of lusty-hed [...]."
"1909, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven In the rash lustihead of my young powers, / I shook the pillaring hours / And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, / I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— / My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap."

Etymology

From Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed; equivalent to lusty + -head. Compare lustihood.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: lustyhede
Suffix: lusty

Usage

Questions

What does lustihead mean?: Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.
Where does lustihead come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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