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名詞

big head (plural big heads)

1. Alternative form of bighead (“person with an inflated opinion of themselves”).
2. (idiomatic) An inflated ego, an exaggerated belief in one's own importance.

   He has gotten a little success, and a big head to go with it.

   • 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

     Don't let the Mayor's compliments give you a big head.

3. (idiomatic, usually humorous) The brain, as opposed to the penis, little head; rational thought, as opposed to lust.
   • 2022 April 4, Joe Giordano, Appointment with ISIL, Rogue Phoenix Press, →ISBN:

     "I wasn't thinking." "Oh, you were thinking, just not with your big head. [...] A sexy skirt catches your eye, and you're blind to what's in front of you."

4. (figurative, sometimes capitalized) The short head of a long tail distribution.
   • 2019, Roy Christopher, “The Meme is Dead, Long Live the Meme”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, punctum books, →ISBN, page 31:

     My friend Mark Wieman noted recently that the Long Tail has gotten so long and so thick that there's not much left in the Big Head.

語源

From big +‎ head.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɪɡˌhɛd/

名詞

bighead (countable and uncountable, plural bigheads)

1. (countable, colloquial, especially used by children) A person with an inflated opinion of themselves; a conceited or arrogant person.
   • 1997, Virginia Watson, Anyan's Story: A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds, page 174:

     He is such a bighead and so lazy that I don't know how far he will go. He can read and write English a little bit and he thinks that is enough for him to know.

   • 2010, Jonathan Wilson, Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches:

     'But there are too many egos, way too many. I mean bigheads who are sidetracked by stuff away from football.'

   • 2011, Linda Hutton, The Wild Thyme Unseen, page 218:

     I'm not such a bighead that I think I can do better than Hugh and Hereman at reclaiming the main island.

2. (countable, colloquial) Any of several species of fish having a large head.
3. (uncountable, colloquial) Any of several animal diseases that cause swelling of the head.

派生語

関連する語

• big-headed, bigheaded, bigheadedness
• biggy head (Cottidae)

参考

• proudling (obsolete)
• swellhead
• egotist