headlong

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛd.lɒŋ/
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• General-American: /ˈhɛd.lɔŋ/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈhɛd.lɑŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɛdlɒŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 D L AO2 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English hedlong, alteration of hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), assimilated to long. More at headling.

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: прибързан (pribǎrzan) — precipitous
• Bulgarian: с главата напред (s glavata napred) — plunging downwards head foremost
• Norwegian: med hode først — plunging downwards head foremost
• Old English: neowol — plunging downwards head foremost
• Spanish: de cabeza — plunging downwards head foremost
• Bulgarian: стремителен (stremitelen) — rushing forward without restraint
• Bulgarian: буен (buen) — rushing forward without restraint
• Norwegian: hals over hode — rushing forward without restraint
• Plautdietsch: onbesonnen — rushing forward without restraint
• Afrikaans: kop eerste — with the head first or down
• Bulgarian: с главата напред (s glavata napred) — with the head first or down
• Catalan: de cap — with the head first or down
• Catalan: amb cap davant — with the head first or down
• Finnish: pää edellä — with the head first or down
• Finnish: päistikkaa — with the head first or down
• French: la tête la première — with the head first or down
• German: mit dem Kopf zuerst — with the head first or down
• Irish: i ndiaidh do chinn — with the head first or down
• Italian: a testa in avanti — with the head first or down
• Latin: praeceps — with the head first or down
• Māori: tūpou — with the head first or down
• Norwegian Bokmål: med hode først — with the head first or down
• Norwegian Bokmål: hodestups — with the head first or down
• Old English: neowol — with the head first or down
• Portuguese: com a cabeça erguida — with the head first or down
• Russian: голово́й вперёд (golovój vperjód) — with the head first or down
• Serbo-Croatian: naglavce — with the head first or down
• Serbo-Croatian: naglavačke — with the head first or down
• Spanish: de cabeza — with the head first or down
• Swedish: huvudstupa — with the head first or down
• Turkish: kafa üstü — with the head first or down
• Afrikaans: halsoorkop — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Bulgarian: стремително (stremitelno) — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Finnish: päätä pahkaa — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Finnish: päistikkaa — with an unrestrained forward motion
• German: kopfüber — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Ancient Greek: ἰταμός (itamós) — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Irish: i ndiaidh do chinn — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Norwegian: hals over hode — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Polish: na oślep — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Russian: сломя́ го́лову (slomjá gólovu) — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Russian: очертя́ го́лову (očertjá gólovu) — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Russian: стремгла́в (stremgláv) — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Russian: опроме́тью (oprométʹju) — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Russian: стреми́тельно (stremítelʹno) — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Serbo-Croatian: strmoglavce — with an unrestrained forward motion
• Afrikaans: halsoorkop — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Aghwan: 𐔱𐕒𐕚𐕍𐔰 (bosq̇a) — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Bulgarian: прибързано (pribǎrzano) — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Bulgarian: необмислено (neobmisleno) — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Esperanto: impete — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Finnish: pää kolmantena jalkana — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• German: Hals über Kopf — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• German: kopfüber — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Italian: a capofitto — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Māori: patiko — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Russian: сломя́ го́лову (slomjá gólovu) — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Russian: очертя́ го́лову (očertjá gólovu) — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Serbo-Croatian: bezglavo — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Spanish: de cabeza — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Sranan Tongo: wantewante — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Sranan Tongo: langalanga — in haste, hastily, without deliberation
• Tamil: தலைதெறிக்க (talaiteṟikka) — in haste, hastily, without deliberation