Hothead
[hot-hed] /ˈhɒtˌhɛd/
noun
1.
an impetuous or short-tempered person.
/ˈhɒtˌhɛd/
noun
1.
an excitable or fiery person
n.
“short-tempered person,” 1650s, from hot in the figurative sense + head (n.); Johnson’s dictionary also lists hotmouthed “headstrong, ungovernable;” Elizabethan English had hot-brain “hothead” (c.1600); and Old English had hatheort “anger, rage,” literally “hot heart.”
noun
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