waterheaded

English

Adjective

waterheaded (comparative more waterheaded, superlative most waterheaded)

1. Filled with waterheads.
2. Hydrocephalic.
   • 1988, Hart Wegner, Houses of Ivory, page 81:

     Lolek, the market boy, a waterheaded child of five, crawled among the wilted cabbage leaves and dead-eyed fishheads nodding his monstrous head to the shrill voice of the nun.

   • 2001, Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama:

     We rented a shotgun house from the county patriarch Hugh Jordan, and esperienced the ordinary novelties of country life: the plump redheaded babysitter who showed us her freckled bottom, the wild boy who shot my brother in the face with BBs, the waterheaded baby at the county fair.

   • 2016, Paul Beatty, The Sellout:

     And lo, the mind of the little waterheaded boy with both arms wrapped about his teacher's hips, his face buried in her crotch, definitely needs a bodyguard, or at least a mental prophylactic.

3. Stupid and/or ugly.
   • 2008, Steven E. Schend, Blackstaff Tower, page 16:

     Kahlem's not a bad Watchman , ” Renaer said , “ but his waterheaded ideas on how to investigate crimes–"

   • 2011, William Kennedy, Legs:

     Jack left it there, turned his back on Charlie and walked down the bar and into the table area where only one table was occupied: by that beauty in a white linen suit and white pumps; and at the table with her a five-foot-five, one-eyed, waterheaded gnome.

   • 2012, Nick Mamatas, The Damned Highway:

     Be sure to sashay out of here and into a loveless marriage with a waterheaded Goldwater supporter.

Verb

waterheaded

1. simple past and past participle of waterhead