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Roundhead(dictionary)

Roundhead (iou)



Roundhead noun & adjective. M17.
[from ROUND adjective + HEAD noun.]
A. noun.
Hist. [From their custom of wearing the hair cut short.] A member or supporter of the parliamentary party in the English Civil War; a 17th-cent. parliamentarian. M17.
b. An immigrant from northern Europe, spec. a Swede. N. Amer. slang. derog. L19.
c. Anthropology. (roundhead.) A brachycephalic person. L19.
(roundhead.) A long-handled weapon fitted at the end with a ring of sharp spikes. Only in M17.
b. adjective. (roundhead.) Round-headed; parliamentarian. M19.