HOT-HEADED
ADJECTIVES
► AGGRO hot-headed, wild, unpredictable → 1990s sl., orig. US students’ usage
► ATTERY of mood, temper, disposition: bad-tempered, spiteful, quarrelsome, peevish, angry, hot-headed → 1742 Sc.
► BRAINISH headstrong, passionate, hot-headed, furious → 1530 obs.
► ETERIE ► ETRIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► MADBRAIN mad-brained; hot-headed, uncontrolled → 1592 obs.
► MAD-BRAINED hot-headed, uncontrolled → 1577
► MAD-HEADED mad-brained; hot-headed, uncontrolled → 1567
► RAMBLESOME ► RAMMELSOME hot-headed, impetuous, blundering → 1864 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BOILED BRAINS hot-headed young men → a1616 obs.
► COWBOY one who has little regard for rules or laws, or is impulsively violent or aggressive; a hot-headed, ruthless, or unrestrained criminal, esp. a gunman → 1885 sl., orig. US
► GASSED-UN ► GASTON a daredevil; a hot-headed, high-spirited person or animal → 1893 Eng. dial.
► HOTSHOT a person who is eager to shoot with a firearm; a reckless or hot-headed person → 1593 obs.
► MADBRAIN a mad-brained person; a scatterbrain; a hot-headed person → c1570 obs.
► MADPASH a foolish or insane person; a lunatic, a mad fellow; a crackbrained person; a scatterbrain; a hot-headed person; a rash or turbulent person; a wild, giddy person → 1611 obs.
► RAM-STAM a headstrong, impetuous fellow; a hot-headed, passionate person → 1823 Sc.
► SQUARER one who quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow → 1599 obs.
► TEARAN FELLOW a rough, hot-headed person who drives everything before him, regardless of danger and of consequences → 1895 N. Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► ARG to argue; to talk ill-temperedly and hot-headedly → 1914 Sc. & Amer. dial.
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