Klarinet Archive - Posting 000340.txt from 2006/02

From: Arthur Acheson <arthur.acheson@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] OT: UK idiom?
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:02:55 -0500

long=B7head=B7ed also long-head=B7ed

1. Anthropology Dolichocephalic.
2. Foresighted; wise.
The American Heritage=AE Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth =20
Edition copyright =A92000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. =20=

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

On 26 Feb 2006, at 22:39, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

I'm reading a British story written ca. 1890 which uses the adjective
"long-headed". I don't believe this was intended as a physical
description. Does "long-headed" have an idiomatic meaning in the UK?

Thank you,
Bill

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