beastlyhead
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From beastly + -head (“-hood”).
Noun
[edit]beastlyhead (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The character or quality of a beast; beastliness.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
- Sicke, sicke, alas! and little lack of dead, / But I be relieved by your beastlyhead.