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PRONUNCIATION OF POINTY-HEAD

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POINTY-HEAD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pointy-Head is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POINTY-HEAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pointy-head in the English dictionary

The definition of pointy-head in the dictionary is an intellectual.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POINTY-HEAD

pointed
pointed arch
pointel
pointelle
pointer
Pointers
pointille
pointillism
pointillisme
pointillist
pointilliste
pointillistic
pointing
pointless
points
points dappui
points system
pointsman
pointy
poise

WORDS THAT END LIKE POINTY-HEAD

against the head
ahead
arrowhead
cheese-head
death´s-head
dragon´s-head
forehead
go ahead
go-ahead
head
head-to-head
knock on the head
masthead
overhead
printhead
pudding-head
redhead
rev-head
the go-ahead
Turk´s-head

Synonyms and antonyms of pointy-head in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pointy-head» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POINTY-HEAD

Find out the translation of pointy-head to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pointy-head from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pointy-head» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

尖尖头
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

puntiaguda cabeza
570 millions of speakers

English

pointy-head
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नुकीले सिर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مدبب الرأس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заостренный - глава
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pontudo - cabeça
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সূচালো মাথা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pointu - tête
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepala tajam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

spitzen Kopf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

先のとがった頭
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뾰족한 머리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mambu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhọn đầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாயிண்ட்லி தலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नादुरूस्तीचे डोके
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sivri kafa
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pointy -head
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Głowica pointy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

загострений -глава
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ascuțite - cap
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μυτερό κεφάλι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pointy -kop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spetsiga huvud
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spisse -head
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pointy-head

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POINTY-HEAD»

The term «pointy-head» is used very little and occupies the 153.171 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POINTY-HEAD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pointy-head

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POINTY-HEAD»

Discover the use of pointy-head in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pointy-head and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pointy Book one The world around you
Bunnie and Buster looked at the two pictures. "Fine, fine" Pointy heard Buster muttering. Buster now pressed the equipment that was coppled on the cap, from above down on Pointy's head. Again Bunnie took a picture and again they walked ...
John Whale
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7 Personality Types: Discover Your True Role in Achieving ...
Scholars have an intellectual or bookish appearance even outside academia. They often have a high forehead (hence the epithets 'highbrow', 'egghead' and ' pointy-head') and a thoughtful, slightly quizzical expression softened by kind eyes.
Elizabeth Puttick, 2009
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A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability': The ...
Galen labels these unsuitable types “pointy heads” because of the appearance created by the missing projections, though he mentions no intellectual impairment in this context. He then adds: It is possible for a fourth type of pointy head to be ...
C F Goodey, 2013
4
Guitar Stories: The Histories of Cool Guitars
The ME-200 had the dtoopy pointy head. Available in black, white and candy apple red. The MBE-100 "Traditional Style" was essentially a Fendet-style bass with one split coil and one single-coil EMG Select pickup, and the droopy pointy ...
Michael Wright, 2000
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The Working Gal's Guide to Babyville: Your Must-Have Manual ...
... resting peacefully in their mothers' arms. It'll be a few days until your child recovers from delivery and morphs into her supercute baby self. Until then, don't worry— despite any craziness in your gene pool, her pointy head isn't permanent .
Paige Hobey, Allison Nied, 2009
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Introductory Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
I wanted to examine her, touch her, feel her, and look into her eyes. They laid our tiny baby girl on my chest, and the first thing I noticed was her very long, pointy head. “Oh, my poor little girl,” I thought, “that looks so painful and awful.
Nancy T. Hatfield, 2013
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Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot ...
“That's how you know when someone is hoaxing a Bigfoot sighting,” Datus told me, “because it has a sharp sagittal crest. If someone says Bigfoot doesn't have a pointy head they are a hoaxer.” This was only one of several beliefs Datus held ...
Christopher Bader, F. Carson Mencken, Joseph O. Baker, 2011
8
Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts: The Use of Physical ...
Thersites is clearly described as a rude and worthless individual—ugly, lame,51 hunched over,52 and balding with a pointy head.53 Given the physical description, the reader might even come to expect some sort of ill fate to find Thersites, ...
Chad Hartsock, 2008
9
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Biodiversity
The few with distinctive features that might survive fixation are Zygeupolia rubens (pointy head and lack of horizontal cephalic slits, if head is not contracted), Amphiporus cruentatus (3 red blood vessels), Paranemertes biocellatus (pointy head ...
Darryl L. Felder, 2009
10
Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide
Divers have seen hammerheads pinning stingrays to the bottom, which would be harder to do with a pointy head. And some go even further, using their heads literally as a hammer. Great Hammerhead Sharks have been observed using the  ...
Gene Helfman, George H. Burgess, 2014

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POINTY-HEAD»

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Woody Allen's Irrational Man Shouldn't Work, But It (Kinda) Does
I think Allen loves identifying with this pointy-head, even after the professor loses his moral bearings. After all, Abe is at an age — mid-forties ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
2
Rise Up for Free Speech!
And, boy, let me tell what would happen to some pointy-head who tried to cut me off at the mike. The love of free speech remains robust in 21st ... «Town Hall, May 15»
3
Gadfly: Bjørn again
Along with Bjørn he has no scientific qualifications about climate and warming but, no matter, scepticism about pointy-head scientists is the new ... «The Saturday Paper, May 15»
4
The lowdown: pointy-heads
Are you a street fighter or, like Dan Aykroyd here, a pointy-head? Ron Galella Collection. Damian Whitworth. Published at 12:01AM, May 14 ... «The Times, May 15»
5
QUENTIN LETTS watches Boris Johnson v Ed Miliband on Andrew …
And the whole show was teed up by a clip from ultimate pointy-head Evan Davis, promoting a show on long after sensible working people have ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
6
Jon Stewart's Daily Show demanded that we pay attention — how …
... pointy-head bosses, a formulation he encouraged by using his biggest guns on the lowest-hanging fruit, especially dumb celebrity culture. «National Post, Feb 15»
7
John Prescott: Labouring a pointy-head
At Prime Minister's questions David Cameron quoted my criticism of Labour and said: “When you get a lecture from John Prescott on the ... «Mirror.co.uk, Nov 14»
8
Cole slaw, pointy-head style
I found this fine fellow on Saturday during a reconnaissance mission to the Smithfield farmers market. There, Ivor farmer Ashton Wells Jr. «The Virginian-Pilot, Jun 11»

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