"hardhead" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hardheads [plural]
Etymology: From hard + head. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hard|head}} hard + head Head templates: {{en-noun}} hardhead (plural hardheads)
  1. One who is practical or hardheaded. Translations (practical or harheaded person): kovakallo (Finnish), ūpoko mārō (Maori)
    Sense id: en-hardhead-en-noun-u6NCAGz3 Disambiguation of 'practical or harheaded person': 73 4 2 3 4 2 8 4
  2. A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia. Translations (Aythya australis): Australische witoogeend [feminine] (Dutch), australiansotka (Finnish), fuligule austral [masculine] (French), Australische Moorente [feminine] (German), podgorzałka australijska [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-hardhead-en-noun-RFVA-4cd Categories (other): English bahuvrihi compounds, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Navajo translations, Terms with Polish translations, Coins, Croakers, Ducks Disambiguation of English bahuvrihi compounds: 6 31 12 15 13 8 6 8 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 28 11 18 14 10 5 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 46 18 11 8 5 2 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 31 12 20 13 6 1 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 30 11 18 15 9 1 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 4 38 13 12 13 8 5 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 5 31 13 12 14 9 4 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 5 31 14 13 14 9 6 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 5 39 13 11 13 8 4 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 5 31 15 11 15 8 4 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Navajo translations: 5 32 15 11 15 7 4 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 5 29 13 12 14 9 5 13 Disambiguation of Coins: 4 24 10 13 12 7 4 27 Disambiguation of Croakers: 5 29 24 14 11 6 1 9 Disambiguation of Ducks: 5 54 5 8 8 5 8 6 Disambiguation of 'Aythya australis': 3 67 6 6 10 4 0 4
  3. Any of certain saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes.
    Sense id: en-hardhead-en-noun-8vwbIhYS Categories (other): Coins, Croakers, Leuciscine fish Disambiguation of Coins: 4 24 10 13 12 7 4 27 Disambiguation of Croakers: 5 29 24 14 11 6 1 9 Disambiguation of Leuciscine fish: 5 11 45 4 5 15 8 6
  4. Mylopharodon conocephalus of fresh waters in California.
    Sense id: en-hardhead-en-noun-QDZa-P-P Categories (other): Coins, Croakers Disambiguation of Coins: 4 24 10 13 12 7 4 27 Disambiguation of Croakers: 5 29 24 14 11 6 1 9
  5. Any of several weeds in or formerly classified in the genus Centaurea, especially Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).
    Sense id: en-hardhead-en-noun-en:knapweed__especially_Russian_knapweed Categories (other): Coins, Croakers Disambiguation of Coins: 4 24 10 13 12 7 4 27 Disambiguation of Croakers: 5 29 24 14 11 6 1 9
  6. (metallurgy) Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.
    Sense id: en-hardhead-en-noun-41TTwv0u Categories (other): Metallurgy Topics: engineering, metallurgy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  7. (obsolete) Clash or collision of heads in contest. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-hardhead-en-noun--Uq75EkV
  8. (historical) A Scottish billon coin circulated in the reigns of Mary and James VI. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-hardhead-en-noun-AIS5tYfX Categories (other): Coins Disambiguation of Coins: 4 24 10 13 12 7 4 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hardhead catfish (taxonomic: Ariopsis felis) Related terms: hardhat

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.