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- adjective Alternative spelling of
big-headed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
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Examples
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I was bigheaded in that I thought I could control heroin.
Dr. Daniel Seidman: Uncontrolled Substances Dr. Daniel Seidman 2011
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I guess I got all bigheaded (or rested on my laurels, or something).
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I was bigheaded in that I thought I could control heroin.
Dr. Daniel Seidman: Uncontrolled Substances Dr. Daniel Seidman 2011
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Many of the most destructive grasshopper species have poetic-sounding names: There's the whitewhiskered grasshopper and the threebanded, spottedwinged, redshanked and bigheaded varieties as well.
Day of the Grasshopper Looms Stephanie Simon 2010
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Many of the most destructive grasshopper species have poetic-sounding names: There's the whitewhiskered grasshopper and the threebanded, spottedwinged, redshanked and bigheaded varieties as well.
Day of the Grasshopper Looms Stephanie Simon 2010
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Many of the most destructive grasshopper species have poetic-sounding names: There's the whitewhiskered grasshopper and the threebanded, spottedwinged, redshanked and bigheaded varieties as well.
Day of the Grasshopper Looms Stephanie Simon 2010
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I guess I got all bigheaded or rested on my laurels, or something.
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Ugly things spotted: ugly gold vase holding ugly bigheaded flowers, ugly brown carpet leading up the stairs, ugly picture of a horse in the hallway, ugly refrigerator magnets, ugly curtains, ugly deformed-looking knobs on all the doors.
DANI NOIR NOVA REN SUMA 2009
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Ugly things spotted: ugly gold vase holding ugly bigheaded flowers, ugly brown carpet leading up the stairs, ugly picture of a horse in the hallway, ugly refrigerator magnets, ugly curtains, ugly deformed-looking knobs on all the doors.
DANI NOIR NOVA REN SUMA 2009
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While the Roundup would voluntarily remove a digit via hacksaw for a shot at contest winner Michelle Persaud, it fears the aggrandizing effect its charm might have on the already assuredly bigheaded Ms. Persaud would be simply too much.
Midterm Roundup 2009
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