waterheaded

comparative more waterheaded · superlative most waterheaded

1. Filled with waterheads.
2. figurativelymedicineHydrocephalic.

   Lolek, the market boy, a waterheaded child of five, crawled among the wilted cabbage leaves and dead-eyed fishheads nodding his monstrous head to the shrill voice of the nun.

   1988, Hart Wegner, Houses of Ivory, page 81

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   We rented a shotgun house from the county patriarch Hugh Jordan, and esperienced the ordinary novelties of country life: the plump redheaded babysitter who showed us her freckled bottom, the wild boy who shot my brother in the face with BBs, the waterheaded baby at the county fair.

   2001, Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama

   And lo, the mind of the little waterheaded boy with both arms wrapped about his teacher's hips, his face buried in her crotch, definitely needs a bodyguard, or at least a mental prophylactic.

   2016, Paul Beatty, The Sellout

3. derogatoryslangStupid or ugly.

   Be sure to sashay out of here and into a loveless marriage with a waterheaded Goldwater supporter.

   2012, Nick Mamatas, The Damned Highway

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   Kahlem's not a bad Watchman , ” Renaer said , “ but his waterheaded ideas on how to investigate crimes–"

   2008, Steven E. Schend, Blackstaff Tower, page 16

   Jack left it there, turned his back on Charlie and walked down the bar and into the table area where only one table was occupied: by that beauty in a white linen suit and white pumps; and at the table with her a five-foot-five, one-eyed, waterheaded gnome.

   2011, William Kennedy, Legs

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of waterhead