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bald-headed

bald-headed

9 3.0
Having little or no hair on the top of the head
  • adjective
  • /bɔldˈhɛdɪd/
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  • The bald-headed comedian had the audience laughing from the moment he stepped on stage.
  • bald-headed man
  • bald-headed guy
  • bald-headed fellow

So he went down and went downstairs to the dance floor and there's two lads sort of on the podium, big geezers, bald heads, shirts off as standard practise.

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Examples

  • From the dirt-floored entryway of the nearby main house, a bald-headed old man, grinning from ear to ear, came out.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • She described him as a friendly bald-headed gentleman with a warm smile.

  • I picked an older bald-headed white man.

  • The bald-headed man sitting in the orchestra seat in front of us suspects something.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • And two deacons in the church were bald-headed.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • After some investigation of this person and a dialogue with this voice, he recognizes a rather small bald-headed man with no hair on his face.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The bartender, a short, stout, bald-headed man, was leaning against the wall.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • A bald-headed black man in shirt sleeves counted money behind a smudged bulletproof glass partition.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • The bald-headed man sat quietly in the corner of the cafe.

Synonyms

bald
vsbald-headed
280 1.0

Having little or no hair on the head

is the descriptive phrase form rather than the single-word label
hairless
vsbald-headed
26 1.7

Having no fur or small threads that grow on the skin

focuses specifically on scalp hair rather than hair on the whole body
bald-pated
vsbald-headed
  • Archaic
9.1

Having little or no hair on the top of the head

is the descriptive phrase version rather than the hyphenated form
baldpated
vsbald-headed
  • Archaic
9.5

A person with no hair on their head

is the descriptive phrase version rather than this single-word spelling
baldish
vsbald-headed
5.8

Having only a little hair on the head

means a fuller lack of scalp hair rather than partial thinning
follicly challenged
vsbald-headed
  • Informal
9.1

Having little or no hair on the head

is the neutral descriptive term rather than playful language
bald as a billiard ball
vsbald-headed
  • Archaic
7.2

Having no hair on the head

allows having a little remaining scalp hair rather than total absence
nonhairy
vsbald-headed
5.8

A part of the body that has no hair

applies mainly to lack of hair on the scalp rather than generally

How Bald

bald
280 1.0
bald-pated
  • Archaic
9.1
bald-headed
9 3.0
balding
1 2.7
baldish
5.8

Surface Forms

bald-headed positive

Morphology

bald-headed = bald + head (transparent) = bald + head + ed

The meaning is directly derived from the combination 'bald' + 'headed' (having a head that is bald), following a common English pattern.

Etymology

Bald-headed starts with bald, from an old German word that once meant 'white' or 'shining' for places with no hair, and it ends with head, which means 'head'. So, bald-headed means having little or no hair on the head.