-head
Used to form words for people who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject, activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in some way.
Suffix derogatory, morpheme
- Used to form words for people who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject, activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in some way.
- motor + -head → motorhead
- pot + -head → pothead
- Used to form words to describe people who are dedicated fans of something, especially music.
- jazz + -head → jazzhead
- metal + -head → metalhead
- Beatle + -head → Beatlehead
- Used with other words to form generic insults or epithets to indicate stupidity.
- block + -head → blockhead
- shit + -head → shithead
- geek + -head → geekhead
Origin
Combining form of the noun head.
Forms
Derived
acidhead boozehead chilihead cokehead crackhead dopehead hophead juicehead pisshead pothead shroomhead smackhead teahead weedhead Beatlehead Deadhead jazzhead Machead metalhead Phishhead Ringhead Spreadhead
Suffix morpheme, uncountable
- Used to create nouns indicating a state; -hood.
Origin
From Middle English -hed, -hede, attested from the 12th century, continuing a hypothetical Old English *-hǣdu (“-hood”), from Proto-Germanic *haidį̄ (“state, condition”), related to Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“manner, character, quality, state”). Doublet of -hood, which see.