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little head

5 9.9
A man's sexual feelings or other emotions that make him act without thinking
  • noun
  • Offensive
: instinto sexual
  • "Hold your pen less tightly when you write," he said, making a note on my chart, not looking up at me, his block-of-ice voice clearly implying that had I any brains in my ditzy little head, I could have figured this out on my own.
  • worry your little head
  • pretty little head
  • thinking with your little head

Examples

  • I sat in the office, big shoulders, big muscles, little head, crying because I wasn't going to be able to play no more.

  • Don't worry your little heads about Count Olaf.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Why do you keep thinking with your little head rather than using your reason?

  • When a beautiful woman is around, he often lets his little head make the decisions.

  • The joke about men always thinking with their little head is relatable in many situations.

Antonyms

reason
∞ 3.0

The power to think and understand clearly

Surface Forms

little head singular
little heads plural

Morphology

little + head

The idiomatic sense referring to a man's sexual impulses is not transparently built from 'little' (small/trivial) and 'head' (which has multiple literal and slang senses). A B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings would not reliably infer this sexual/psychological meaning because the combination is metaphorical and culturally specific rather than compositional.

Etymology

Little head may come from a simple image: a big head for thinking and a little head for quick, private wants. That's why when someone follows their little head, it means they let those small 'sexual urges' guide their choices instead of reason.