"short-tempered person," 1650s, from hot in the figurative sense + head (n.); Johnson's dictionary also lists hotmouthed "headstrong, ungovernable;" Elizabethan English had hot-brain "hothead" (c. 1600); and Old English had hatheort "anger, rage," literally "hot heart."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. He is a hothead and a bully just like his dad.
他和他爸爸一樣都是個(gè)恃強(qiáng)凌弱的莽夫。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. She's such a hothead.
她真是個(gè)急性子.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. Or some hothead trying to challenge you because his sister wants to meet you?