Klarinet Archive - Posting 000341.txt from 2006/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] OT: UK idiom?
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:56:57 -0500

Meaning 2 is now seriously obsolete, though I think it's used in the Sher=
lock
Holmes stories.
Roger S.

In message <F33ACAA9-CD69-4F39-B331-BDD71960FEE3@-----.com>
klarinet@-----.org writes:
> long=B7head=B7ed also long-head=B7ed
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> 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.=
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> Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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> On 26 Feb 2006, at 22:39, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
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> 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?
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> Thank you,
> Bill
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Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
---- "The rape of the lock".

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