lustihead

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noun

Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.

OriginMiddle English lustyhede →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounlustihead (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableLustfulness, delight; licentiousness.

    1909, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven In the rash lustihead of my young powers, / I shook the pillaring hours / And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, / I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— / My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.

    1 more example

    in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate, / And all of loue, and all of lusty-hed [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Englishlustyhede
  2. Englishlustihead

From Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed; equivalent to lusty + -head. Compare lustihood.

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APA

lustihead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lustihead

MLA

“lustihead.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lustihead. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lustihead,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lustihead.

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