fivehead

English

Portrait of Marie Antoinette showing her fivehead.

Etymology

Blend of five +‎ forehead. Wordplay based on adding one to the "fore" (homophonous to four) of forehead, thus implying a brow that is larger than average.

Noun

fivehead (plural fiveheads)

(humorous) A large forehead.
- 1997 October 31, Gates, Anita, “Theater Review: Magic That's Made Comic, and Comedy That's Magic”, in The New York Times‎:
  His splashiest trick is balancing a glass of grape juice on his forehead (which is so big, he says, that everyone calls it a fivehead) while playing the ukulele, whistling and doing a backward somersault.
- 2008, Hartley, Gregory, I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending with Their Body, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 63:
  It also helps that my hair has left for higher ground and instead of a forehead, as the joke goes, I have a fivehead.
- 2009 October 13, Klein, Stephanie, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, HarperCollins, →ISBN, OL 24275167M, page 196:
  For starters, thin me tanned easily and didn't have a forehead so wide it was called a fivehead.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fivehead.

单词	fivehead
释义	fivehead English Portrait of Marie Antoinette showing her fivehead. Etymology Blend of five +‎ forehead. Wordplay based on adding one to the "fore" (homophonous to four) of forehead, thus implying a brow that is larger than average. Noun fivehead (plural fiveheads) (humorous) A large forehead. 1997 October 31, Gates, Anita, “Theater Review: Magic That's Made Comic, and Comedy That's Magic”, in The New York Times‎: His splashiest trick is balancing a glass of grape juice on his forehead (which is so big, he says, that everyone calls it a fivehead) while playing the ukulele, whistling and doing a backward somersault. 2008, Hartley, Gregory, I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending with Their Body, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 63: It also helps that my hair has left for higher ground and instead of a forehead, as the joke goes, I have a fivehead. 2009 October 13, Klein, Stephanie, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, HarperCollins, →ISBN, OL 24275167M, page 196: For starters, thin me tanned easily and didn't have a forehead so wide it was called a fivehead. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fivehead.
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