Meanings
plural baldheads
- A person whose head is bald.
Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead!"
2000, World English Bible, 2 Kings 2:231 more example
You didn't have to be amongst them to hear it all. It was all in the nodding and twittering of the balls of blue fluff, the back-slapping and hawk-an-spitting of the little old baldheads.
1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 136Synonyms: baldy
- A white-headed variety of pigeon.
- RastafariA person who is not Rastafarian.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person whose head is bald.
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baldhead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baldhead
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