What does pig-headed mean?

pig-headed

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

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"If the dear old emotional, pig-headed, Rule-Britannia! public had got it that French spies were stalking through the land at this crisis, then, indeed, the fat would have been in the fire!"
"That he was a great locomotive engineer, it would be foolish to deny or even to qualify; that he was also extremely pig-headed is fairly evidenced by David Joy, who in his 'Diaries' said that Stroudley always wanted his way 'to the last nut and bolt.'"

more pig-headed (comparative) most pig-headed (superlative)

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