"headie" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "head",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "head + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From head + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "headies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "headie (plural headies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, [William] Gordon Stables, The Island of Gold: A Sailor’s Yarn, London, Edinburgh, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, page 197:",
          "text": "“Poor ’Rallie,” cried Babs, sympathizingly, “does your headie ache?” The Admiral drew out his head, and looked at the child very mournfully indeed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901, Maxim Gorky [pseudonym; Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], “Várenka Ólesoff”, in Isabel F[lorence] Hapgood, transl., Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 448–449:",
          "text": "Várenka greeted him with a searching glance, and the amiable query: “is your headie better?” “Yes, thank you . . .” he replied drily, seating himself at a distance from her, and thinking to himself: “She does not even know how to speak: ‘is your headie better?’ indeed!”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, A[ndrew] J[ohn] C[alvin] Lowe, “Lullaby”, in Unpolished Pebbles: A Collection of Original Poems, [Osawatomie, Kan.]: [Olos Lowe Printing Co.], page 33:",
          "text": "Rockaby baby, go to sleep baby, / Nestle your headie on mama’s own breast.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, James Hoffman, Joan Hoffman, Prekindergarten Discoveries, Minneapolis, Minn.: T. S. Denison & Company, page 98, column 2:",
          "text": "With a wing on the right, / They lay down their headies / And sleep through the night.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Antonio Skármeta, translated by Jonathan Tittler, Love-Fifteen, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, →ISBN, page 115:",
          "text": "And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Stephen King, Bag of Bones, Scribner, →ISBN, page 342:",
          "text": "“[…] The band is giving me a headache.” “Music hurt your headie?” “A little bit.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Heather Shaw, Smallfish Clover, IAMO Press, →ISBN, page 210:",
          "text": "“He has a geeyoteen in his mouth.” “And what’s a geeyoteen?” “A machine to chop off your headie.” Cook slid his hand like a blade across his neck and smiled crookedly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The head."
      ],
      "id": "en-headie-en-noun-Y~HP1lFs",
      "links": [
        [
          "childish",
          "childish"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(childish) The head."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "childish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "headie"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "head",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "head + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From head + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "headies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "headie (plural headies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English childish terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ie",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, [William] Gordon Stables, The Island of Gold: A Sailor’s Yarn, London, Edinburgh, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, page 197:",
          "text": "“Poor ’Rallie,” cried Babs, sympathizingly, “does your headie ache?” The Admiral drew out his head, and looked at the child very mournfully indeed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901, Maxim Gorky [pseudonym; Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], “Várenka Ólesoff”, in Isabel F[lorence] Hapgood, transl., Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 448–449:",
          "text": "Várenka greeted him with a searching glance, and the amiable query: “is your headie better?” “Yes, thank you . . .” he replied drily, seating himself at a distance from her, and thinking to himself: “She does not even know how to speak: ‘is your headie better?’ indeed!”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, A[ndrew] J[ohn] C[alvin] Lowe, “Lullaby”, in Unpolished Pebbles: A Collection of Original Poems, [Osawatomie, Kan.]: [Olos Lowe Printing Co.], page 33:",
          "text": "Rockaby baby, go to sleep baby, / Nestle your headie on mama’s own breast.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, James Hoffman, Joan Hoffman, Prekindergarten Discoveries, Minneapolis, Minn.: T. S. Denison & Company, page 98, column 2:",
          "text": "With a wing on the right, / They lay down their headies / And sleep through the night.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Antonio Skármeta, translated by Jonathan Tittler, Love-Fifteen, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, →ISBN, page 115:",
          "text": "And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Stephen King, Bag of Bones, Scribner, →ISBN, page 342:",
          "text": "“[…] The band is giving me a headache.” “Music hurt your headie?” “A little bit.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Heather Shaw, Smallfish Clover, IAMO Press, →ISBN, page 210:",
          "text": "“He has a geeyoteen in his mouth.” “And what’s a geeyoteen?” “A machine to chop off your headie.” Cook slid his hand like a blade across his neck and smiled crookedly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The head."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "childish",
          "childish"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(childish) The head."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "childish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "headie"
}