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Fathead   Listen
noun
Fathead  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); called also black-headed minnow.
(b)
A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fathead" Quotes from Famous Books



... returned to him with the following reply scrawled across the billhead: "Dear Sir—I never ordered this beastly book. If I did, you didn't send it. If you sent it, I never got it. If I got it, I paid for it. If I didn't, I won't. Now go and hang yourself, you fathead.—Yours ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... long, wavy locks composedly, and then plucked a scarlet hibiscus flower to stick in front of one of her pretty little ears—"what does that matter to me, fathead? I am she here; and when Iliati goeth away to her she will be me there. But he loveth me more than any other on Rotumah, and hath told me that where he goeth I shall go also. And who knoweth but that if I have a son he may marry me? Then shalt thou see such a wedding-feast ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke

... "there's Eely Burr and Fathead grinning at us. Wait a bit! They don't know what a horrible revenge we're going to ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn

... short, it is not 'Pifield Rice, Investigator. No. 1.—The Adventure of the Maharajah's Ruby' that I submit to your notice, but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young man, variously known to his comrades at the Bureau as 'Fathead', 'That blighter what's-his-name', and ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... I s'pose, as he has done. Then"—he was fiddling with the scraps and finally fitted two together—"why, look here, this one with 'lane' on it fits over the one about throwing over, and it says 'poor f' where its torn; that means 'poor fool,' I s'pose—me, or 'fathead,' or something like that. That's nice. Why, I'd twist his neck if I could get hold ...
— Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison



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