Meanings
plural Bankheads
- countableuncountableA surname from places.
Sixty-three-year-old Tallulah Bankhead joined the British studio’s monstrous regiment as the religious fanatic who terrorises her dead son’s girlfriend in Die! Die! My Darling! (1965).
2018 January 18, Anne Billson, “'Hagsploitation': horror's obsession with older women returns”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021 - A placename.
- countableuncountableA hamlet in Aberdeenshire council area (OS grid ref NJ6608).
- countableuncountableA western neighbourhood of Edinburgh, Edinburgh council area (OS grid ref NT1971).
- countableuncountableA suburb of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire council area (OS grid ref NS6161).
- countableuncountableA neighbourhood of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Origin
Habitational surname from various Scottish minor places, from bank + head.
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Cite this entry
Bankhead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bankhead
“Bankhead.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bankhead. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bankhead,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bankhead.
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