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Headpiece.
What kind of word is that? I'll withhold my reason for asking about it for now. Don't want to spoil any current puzzles, but I thought that was too obscure.A little googling lets me see that its current usage mostly has to do with bridal costumery. Maybe something between a headband and a headdress that somehow doesn't seem like a tiara?
By the way, "headcase" is in the OED. Defintion: "A person whose behaviour is violent and unpredictable, or markedly eccentric; (often hyperbolically) such a person characterized as mentally ill or unstable." The first observed us is in the 1965 movie "Flight of Phoenix": "They ain't gonna let no head-case run a drilling operation." I love the trailer:
But it made me think of "headcase" and "thinkpiece."
One of the definitions of "headpiece" in the OED — and there are 8 — is "The head or brain considered as the seat of mental activity; intellect, brains, sense. colloquial in later use."
It's in the 1740 novel "Pamela": "You have an excellent Head-piece for your Years." And I like this dialog from "Jazz" (2003 J. Murray): "She has brains, I swear, nearly as big as my own"/"Some headpiece that must be. I wonder what you two great minds choose to talk about?"
Ha ha. I like it. I'm going to try to remember to use "headpiece" like that. You can also use "headpiece" to mean "A clever or intellectual person." Example: "Of all the head-pieces that were there, he was thought to give the strongest reasons" (1657 T. Burton Diary).
One year later, Pete Townshend came out with "I'm a Boy": "My name is Bill, and I'm a head case/They practice making up on my face/Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear/Spend evenings taking hairpins from my hair/I'm a boy, I'm a boy/But my ma won't admit it..."
As for "think-piece" — that's in the OED too. It's mostly a journalism term — "an article containing discussion, analysis, or opinion, as opposed to fact or news." It was first seen in 1935 in Harper's: "We [reporters] wanted to work,... but there was nothing with which to build. So we faked and wrote ‘think pieces’ and sat about, glass in hand, until something happened to break the monotony." Fake news!
Imagine a headpiece writing a thinkpiece about a headcase. Oh! I just thought of just about every article I've ever read about Trump.
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What kind of word is that? I'll withhold my reason for asking about it for now. Don't want to spoil any current puzzles, but I thought that was too obscure.
A little googling lets me see that its current usage mostly has to do with bridal costumery. Maybe something between a headband and a headdress that somehow doesn't seem like a tiara?
By the way, "headcase" is in the OED. Defintion: "A person whose behaviour is violent and unpredictable, or markedly eccentric; (often hyperbolically) such a person characterized as mentally ill or unstable." The first observed us is in the 1965 movie "Flight of Phoenix": "They ain't gonna let no head-case run a drilling operation." I love the trailer:
But it made me think of "headcase" and "thinkpiece."
One of the definitions of "headpiece" in the OED — and there are 8 — is "The head or brain considered as the seat of mental activity; intellect, brains, sense. colloquial in later use."
It's in the 1740 novel "Pamela": "You have an excellent Head-piece for your Years." And I like this dialog from "Jazz" (2003 J. Murray): "She has brains, I swear, nearly as big as my own"/"Some headpiece that must be. I wonder what you two great minds choose to talk about?"
Ha ha. I like it. I'm going to try to remember to use "headpiece" like that. You can also use "headpiece" to mean "A clever or intellectual person." Example: "Of all the head-pieces that were there, he was thought to give the strongest reasons" (1657 T. Burton Diary).
One year later, Pete Townshend came out with "I'm a Boy": "My name is Bill, and I'm a head case/They practice making up on my face/Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear/Spend evenings taking hairpins from my hair/I'm a boy, I'm a boy/But my ma won't admit it..."
As for "think-piece" — that's in the OED too. It's mostly a journalism term — "an article containing discussion, analysis, or opinion, as opposed to fact or news." It was first seen in 1935 in Harper's: "We [reporters] wanted to work,... but there was nothing with which to build. So we faked and wrote ‘think pieces’ and sat about, glass in hand, until something happened to break the monotony." Fake news!
Imagine a headpiece writing a thinkpiece about a headcase. Oh! I just thought of just about every article I've ever read about Trump.
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