hothead

[hot-hed] /ˈhɒtˌhɛd/
noun
1.
an impetuous or short-tempered person.
Origin
1650-60; hot + head
Examples from the web for hothead
  • No hothead nationalist can close borders to a neighbour's goods.
  • Such plants have two mutant copies of a gene called hothead, which differ from the normal gene by a single base pair.
  • There is no point in preaching non-violent action to a hothead, but a scholarly individual might be receptive to certain ideas.
  • The parent generation had a mutant version of a gene dubbed hothead, which causes the plants to have fused flowers.
  • They did not care a mottled past trailed him or that he carried the reputation of a hothead.
  • Be careful the next time some hothead cuts you off in traffic.
British Dictionary definitions for hothead

hothead

/ˈhɒtˌhɛd/
noun
1.
an excitable or fiery person
Word Origin and History for hothead
n.

"short-tempered person," 1650s, from hot in the figurative sense + head (n.); Johnson's dictionary also lists hotmouthed "headstrong, ungovernable;" Elizabethan English had hot-brain "hothead" (c.1600); and Old English had hatheort "anger, rage," literally "hot heart."

Slang definitions & phrases for hothead

hothead

noun
  1. An irascible person; one quick to anger;
  2. A fanatical, emotional person; fiery militant (1660+)