Meanings
nounbeastlyhead (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe character or quality of a beast; beastliness.
Sicke, sicke, alas! and little lack of dead, / But I be relieved by your beastlyhead.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
Origin
From beastly + -head (“-hood”).
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beastlyhead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beastlyhead
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