melonhead
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Melonheads don’t seem to have developed the knack of raising food. Rather, they survive in the woods by dining on whatever they catch--fish, frogs, bugs, moles, or roadkill. That is, between their occasional human flesh feasts. Local legend holds that people sightseeing, biking, or hiking in the vicinity of any Melonhead habitat are likely to vanish, never to be seen again."
- "Melonhead stories appear in Michigan and Connecticut, though Ohio’s Peninsula stores are the most persistent"
- "Uncle Gene turned toward Dad. "Let the melonhead laugh. We'll show him, won't we, pard?""
- "The picture showed the group, a gurning, multichinned James looking like a melonhead in the foreground, dressed in formal evening-wear and cummerbunds. How the fuck had they got hold of those pictures? The boys looked like a cabaret band. It was bad. It was very bad."
- "“Then stop being melon-heads. Goodness, I swear sometimes you don’t have the sense God gave a goose.”"
- "Of course you should you melonhead. Why are you being so obtuse. You are just making my whole point."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Australian usage
- Derogatory
- Informal