oxhead

English

Etymology

From Middle English oxe head, oxheved, equivalent to ox +‎ head. Compare hogshead.

Noun

oxhead (plural oxheads)

The head of an ox; an emblem of cuckoldry(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?).
(obsolete) A fool; a blockhead.
- 1608, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess:
  Dost make a mummer of me, oxe-head?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oxhead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

hoaxed