Etymology

weedhead

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Today it means: A person who smokes cannabis regularly, or to excess. Full definition →

English weed ← Middle English weed ← Old English wēod
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  1. Proto-West Germanic*weud
  2. Old Englishwēod
  3. Middle Englishweed
  4. Englishweed
  5. English todayweedhead

From weed (“marijuana”) + -head.

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