lighthead n.
a fool, a simpleton.
| [ | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Real Life in London II 230: A Charley about three parts sprung, and who appeared to have more light in his head than he could shew from his lantern]. |
 | Man & Maid 39: My niece Madelaine — a lighthead — dragged me to the Ritz to lunch last week. | |
| Collier’s Mag. 127 49/2: What a lighthead I was then, dancing and dashing around. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Whistle in the Dark Act II: Blood, and fighting, and light-heads, and daft fathers, and mad brothers! |
In derivatives
stupid, foolish, mad.
| The defense of the aunsvvere to the Admonition 677: For it cannot be vnknowne, that there are many lightheaded and vnconstant ministers. | |
| A discoursiue probleme concerning prophesies 35: But what can we make, or thinke of these lightheaded, and hairebrainde prophets? | |
| Edward II line 2109: The proud corruptors of the light-brainde king Haue done their homage to the loftie gallowes. | |
| A manifestation of the great folly and bad spirit n.p.: But whether this lightheaded discouerer doth shew himselfe more malitious in setting downe so malignant a marginal note [...] let the indifferent reader be iudge. | |
| [trans.] The generall historie of the magnificent state of Venice 149: For certaine Greekes (who by nature were lightheaded and inconstant) being wearied with so many miseries [etc]. | |
| ‘Democritus to Reader’ Anatomy of Melancholy (1893) I 75: Old men account juniors all fools [...] Italians French-men, accounting them light-headed fellows. | |
| The painting of the ancients 305: [M]issing the true way of Art, they fall into a youthfull and lightheaded kind of trifling. | |
| A true relation of the murders committed in the parish of Clunne 118: [A] false traducer, unwise, dishonest, uncharitable, [...] lightheaded, furious, fantasticall, disloyall, and unquiet. | |
| [trans.] Cassandra 48: These words [...] made them believ hee was lightheaded. | |
| Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary n.p.: Kiecken-hoost, Giddy-headed fellow or Light-brained man. | |
| N. Johnston The excellency of monarchical government n.p.: [notes] Vain and lightheaded Persons. | |
| Select sermons 155: Where Men sink down into Sensuality; or become lightheaded, being intoxicated with vain Perswasions [...] there is Darkness, Confusion, and inward Torture. | |
| Proceedings at Sessions (City of London) Apr. 19/1: He had attempted to drown himself, and was taken out of the Thames. Jane Saunders and Mary Ray depos’d, That about two Months since, he had told them, he had been Light-headed, and that they thought he look’d Melancholy. | |
| Monthly Rev. Aug. 143: By what enchantment [...] is it that so light-brained, frivolous a people, have been able to extend over the universe, the ruinous and tyrannical empire of its modes? | |
| Adventures of a Speculist II 121: The Light-headed ones are those foot-stools of folly called Poets. | |
| Dizionario delle lingue italiana, ed inglese n.p.: Cervellino [...] hair-brained, brainless, light-brained. | |
| British Rev. Aug. 495: The reputation of Great Britain abroad, when degraded by the floating swarms of her light-brained citizens. | |
| Self-Condemned 35: So look to it, hot-brained, hare-brained, light-brained, moth-brained stormer! | |
| Beaten Paths I 91: A gay, light-brained young fellow. | |
| Leyton Hall 43: Maud is wrong [...] to hold these morning levees of light-brained idlers when I am absent. | |
| Preston Tower 1 47: Now for the owls and the bats, and may they impart some of their own sagacity to this light-brained noddle of mine. | |
| Sporting Times 15 Mar. 2/2: Being assured that our sleeper would go right through, it was perfectly natural to have to change at Paris, for such is the way in this land of light-headed gibbering gonophs. | |
| Legion of Marching Madmen 109: ‘[H]how’n hell you going to find the dame? She may be conked out by now’ [...] ‘The runt is light-headed!’ quoth Steve. | |
| Total Package 11: Sidney Blakely only wanted to escape the coy, perfumed, primping, light-brained mass of calendar models at the Amoteh Resort. |