Word of the Day: NOTT-HEADED

ETYMOLOGY
from nott for notted (shorn, cut close, or smooth), from nott (to shear or poll), which is from the Saxon hnot, meaning the same

EXAMPLE
“… Your Sages in generall, by seeing too much ouersee that happinesse; Only your block-headly Tradesman; your honest meaning Cittizen; your not-headed Countrie Gentleman; your vnapprehending Stinckerd is blest with the sole prerogatiue of his Wiues chamber. …”

From: The WIddowes Teares, A Comedie
By George Chapman, 1612

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