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Meaning of hammer-headed | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Having a head in the shape of a hammer.
    not-comparable
  2. Stupid, ignorant.
    idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“To make you merry that are the Gods of Art, and guides vnto heauen, a number of rude Vulcans, vnweldy ſpeakers, hammer-headed clownes (for ſo it pleaſeth them in modeſtie to name themſelues) haue ſet their deformities to view, as it were in a daunce here before you.”
“2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

hammerable hammered hammered and sickled hammerless hammerlike Hammettesque

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