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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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