bottlehead
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English
Etymology
Noun
bottlehead (plural bottleheads)
- (archaic) The bottlenose whale
- A beetlehead; a fool
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
- But why , for a blind bottle-head, did not ye ask the guineas?
References
“bottlehead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.