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Bighead vs Jighead - What's the difference?

bighead | jighead |

As nouns the difference between bighead and jighead

is that bighead is (colloquial|especially used by children) a person having an inflated opinion of himself; a conceited or arrogant person while jighead is a fishhook with an incorporated moulded weighting mass of metal or plastic below the eye.

bighead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial, especially used by children) A person having an inflated opinion of himself; a conceited or arrogant person.
  • * 1997 , Virginia Watson, Anyan's Story: A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds , page 174:
  • He is such a bighead and so lazy that I don't know how far he will go. He can read and write English a little bit and he thinks that is enough for him to know.
  • * 2010 , Jonathan Wilson, Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches :
  • 'But there are too many egos, way too many. I mean bigheads who are sidetracked by stuff away from football.'
  • * 2011 , Linda Hutton, The Wild Thyme Unseen , page 218:
  • I'm not such a bighead that I think I can do better than Hugh and Hereman at reclaiming the main island.
  • (colloquial) One of several species of fish having a large head.
  • (colloquial) One of several animal diseases that cause swelling of the head.
  • See also

    * proudling (obsolete) * swellhead * egotist English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    jighead

    English

    Alternative forms

    *jig head

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fishhook with an incorporated moulded weighting mass of metal or plastic below the eye.