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head-hunter (n.)[head-hunter 词源字典]: 1800, from head (n.) + hunter. Employment sense attested from 1961. Related: Head-hunting (1817).[head-hunter etymology, head-hunter origin, 英语词源]
head-on (adv.): 1840, from head (n.) + on.
head-piece (n.): 1530s, from head (n.) + piece (n.).
head-rest (n.): 1833, from head (n.) + rest (n.).
head-shrinker (n.): also headshrinker, 1926 in literal sense, from head (n.) + agent noun from shrink (v.); as U.S. slang for "psychologist," by 1950.
headache (n.): Old English heafodece; see head (n.) + ache (n.). Colloquial sense of "troublesome problem" is first recorded 1934. Related: Headachy (1705).
headband (n.): also Related: head-band, 1530s, from head (n.) + band (n.1).
headbanger (n.): "devotee of heavy metal music," 1984, from head (n.) + agent noun from bang (v.).
header (n.): "head-first dive or plunge," 1849, from head (n.); as a type of pass or shot with the head in soccer, by 1906. Earlier it meant "executioner, headsman" (mid-15c.).
heading (n.): c. 1300, "a beheading," from present participle of head (v.). Meaning "an advancing in a certain direction" is from c. 1600. Meaning "title at the head of a portion of text" is from 1849.
headland (n.): Old English heafod lond "strip of land left unplowed at the edge of a field to leave room for the plow to turn," naturally identified with boundaries; see head (n.) + land (n.). Meaning "high cape, promontory" is from 1520s.
headless (adj.): late Old English, heafedleas; see head (n.) + -less. Late 14c. as "rulerless, lacking a leader." Related: Headlessly; headlessness. Similar construction in Dutch hoofdeloos, German hauptlos, Danish hovedlös.
headlight (n.): large lamp and reflector carried in front to illuminate at night, 1861, originally of ships and locomotives, from head (n.) + light (n.). Related: Headlights, which, as slang for "a woman's breasts," is from 1940s.
headline (n.): 1670s, from head (n.) in sense "heading of a book or chapter" (c. 1200) + line (n.). Originally a printers' term for the line at the top of a page containing the title and page number; used of the lines that form the title of a newspaper article from 1890, and transferred unthinkingly to broadcast media. Headlinese "language peculiar to headlines" is from 1927. Headlines "important news" is from 1908.
headliner (n.): 1891, "one who writes newspaper headlines;" 1896 as "one who stars in a performance;" from headline + -er (1).
headlong (adv.): late 14c., headling, also headlings, "headfirst (downward); headlong (forward); without thinking, hastily," from hed "head" (see head (n.)) + adverbial suffix -ling. Altered by c. 1400 to conform with sidelong, etc. Its true companions are now mostly obsolete: darkling, backling, flatling, etc.
headman (n.): also head-man, "chief man, leader," Old English heafodman; see head (adj.) + man (n.). Cognate with German Hauptmann "captain."
headmaster (n.): principal of a school or seminary, 1570s, from head (adj.) + master (n.).
headphone (n.): 1887, from head (n.) + second element extracted from telephone (n.). Related: Headphones.
headquarters (n.): "residence of a military commander," 1640s, from head (adj.) + quarters. Headquarter as a verb is recorded from 1838 (in Headquartered).