-head
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-head1
▶suffix equivalent to -hood.
– origin ME -hed, -hede.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-head2
▶combining form
- 1 denoting the head or end of a specified thing: spearhead.
- 2 in nouns used informally to express disparagement of a person: airhead.
- 3 in nouns used informally to denote an addict of a specified drug: crackhead.
■ forming informal nouns denoting an enthusiast of a particular thing: Nethead.
'-head' also found in these Oxford entries:
abbess
- abbot
- acephalous
- acetabulum
- achieve
- adjutant
- Afro
- aleph
- Allen screw
- alligator
- aloof
- amphisbaena
- anosmia
- anterior
- antler
- arrow
- arrow worm
- artichoke
- aureole
- autocephalous
- badger
- bail
- balaclava
- bandeau
- bandleader
- barbastelle
- bareheaded
- basilisk
- battering ram
- beamer
- bean
- beanie
- bear
- bearing rein
- bedhead
- Bedlington terrier
- behead
- bergschrund
- bicephalous
- Big Brother
- big-head
- Birman
- bit
- blenny
- blindfold
- blind snake
- block
- blowhole
- bluebird
- body
