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lustihead

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, uncountable

Examples

  • 1909, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven In the rash lustihead of my young powers, / I shook the pillaring hours / And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, / I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— / My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed; equivalent to lusty + -head. Compare lustihood.