hot-headed

hot-headed (comparative more hot-headed or hotter-headed, superlative most hot-headed or hottest-headed)

1. Alternative spelling of hotheaded
   • 1856 April, S[pencer] W[allace] C[one], “The Next President”, in Spencer W. Cone, editor, The United States Democratic Review, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Lloyd & Company, […], page 321:

     Bat who will the next Democratic President be? Harry A. Wise? The eloquent Virginian is hotter-headed than we are. We have no objection to him, however. A radical lawyer very often makes a conservative judge, and the peace of nations is never securer than when a great soldier bears his hand upon the helm of State.

   • 1883 December, J. P. Wheeldon, “‘Uncle John’”, in Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume XLI, number 286, London: A. H. Baily & Co., […], published 1884, page 327:

     They were hard now with frost, sodden with autumn rains, and looked black, mourning, and desolate, as the unhappy fate which had befallen one of the best and noblest hearted, yet hottest-headed men that ever loved the sunlight, and at all times, unless under great excitement, God’s dumb creatures.

   • 1894 May 19, E. Hough, “[‘Forest and Stream’s’ Yellowstone Park Game Exploration. No. 2. Actual Interviews on Segregation.] Mr. Wittich, of Livingston.”, in Forest and Stream. A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. […], volume XLII, number 20, New York, N.Y.: […] [T]he Forest and Stream Publishing Company, page 420, column 2:

     He told me how he compelled Capt. Anderson and the Secretary of the Interior to yield to his imperious demands for the privilege of bearing arms in the Park and going where he pleased. (Capt. Anderson’s account of this is a shade different. I haven’t heard from the Secretary of the Interior.) Young Wittich was hotter-headed than his father, who held the same beliefs, but was temperate in them. Young Wittich said the soldiers ought to be abolished and was of the belief that the Cooke City road must be built through the Park peaceably if it could, by force if it must.

   • 1905, Henry M. Ross, “A Curious Situation”, in “That Man’s Daughter”, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, Oh., Chicago, Ill.: Benziger Brothers, […], page 136:

     Mercedes Armitage befriended me when I was younger and hotter-headed than I am now.

   • 1996 June, Larry BeSaw, “[Do fit physicians practice as what they preach I do] The shootist: Robert Chilton, MD”, in Texas Medicine, volume 92, number 6, Austin, Tex.: Texas Medical Association, →ISSN, page 38, column 1:

     He [Robert Chilton] added, however, that “some of the hottest-headed guys I’ve seen have been docs. They don’t like to lose.” That may be attributable to the inner drive physicians need to get through college, medical school, internships, and residencies.

   • 2007, Marcia Muller, The Ever-Running Man, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 151:

     John counseled that I proceed cautiously, hear Hy out before making any judgments. This coming from my brother, who had once been the hottest-headed bar fighter in San Diego County.