hothead

hothead
hothead "short-tempered person," 1650s, from HOT (Cf. hot) in the figurative sense + HEAD (Cf. head) (n.); Johnson's dictionary also lists hotmouthed "headstrong, ungovernable;" Elizabethan English had hot-brain "hothead" (c.1600); and O.E. had hatheort "anger, rage," lit. "hot heart."

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