Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of loggerhead.
- n. Fisticuffs; fighting.
- n. dialect The knapweed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The knapweed.
Examples
“Dick and I have been at loggerheads from the time we could even talk," says Tommy, 71, who is 22 months older than Dick.”
“Ultimately though, I think the reason that we’re at loggerheads is because each is confident in our own presuppositions, the stuff that just isn’t there in the York’s article.”
“Q On the nomination of Bill Lann Lee, you seem to be at kind of loggerheads with -- judiciary chairman.”
“Kudos for using the cool-sounding "loggerheads," but is that English?”
“Speculations are rife that Musharraf is pondering over launching a new political party as his close associates have advised him to avoid appearances in media particularly when he and PML-Q's Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain are at 'loggerheads'.”
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“The IMF and the Afghan government have been at loggerheads since the fall, when the IMF suspended its financial assistance to the country partly because the government refused to shut down Kabul Bank.”
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“Things just work better when one person captains the ship instead of having two authorities at loggerheads.”
“Which is why India is constantly at loggerheads with Britain”
“Which is why India is constantly at loggerheads with Britain and why after the ANC took control in South Africa, there were massive reprisals against white South Africans.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loggerheads’.
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nonhead heads
figuratively named things with head
goathead, deadhead, arrowhead, warhead, airhead, cathead, bubblehead, egghead, hogshead, railhead, Tallulah Bankhead, bridgehead and 53 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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words I love to use
kerfuffle, smarmy, sketchy, grim, wheedle, piffle, prattle, loggerheads, snarky, piddling, nix, caterwaul and 90 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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amber words
amber words is the term I use for words that are all but fossilized, in the sense that their use is always in the context of a single expression. Examples include caboodle, dudgeon, umbrage
sanctum, akimbo, amok, riddance, druthers, trove, caboodle, immemorial, blithering, dudgeon, swaddling, askance and 110 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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smock, smock, smock!
things that are just fun to say
trivet, onomatopoeia, whippersnapper, grout, smock, smirk, kibosh, fracas, gaggle, denizen, smorgasbord, soliloquy and 104 more...
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Words that kick serious ass
juggernaut, haymaker, gung-ho, frag, smite, blunderbuss, gargantuan, ragnarok, ripsnorter, herculean, silverback, firebrand and 127 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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L is for La Ti Da
My L Words
la ti da, lady, lady killer, lagoon, lazybones, leapfrog, lederhosen, librarian, library, lickety-split, lion-hearted, lionhearted and 34 more...
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dysphemisms
such rascally fun
boink, shit show, schlock, git, prattle, piffle, loggerheads, kerfuffle, angsty
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them's fighting words
fisticuffs, loggerheads, pugilist, vitriol, clusterfuck, vituperative
Tweets
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chained_bear "They were at loggerheads over the use of the term 'loggerheads'." Better? Nov 11, 2007
jennarenn Could loggerheads ever be at loggerheads? They seem too placid. Nov 11, 2007
mollusque You're forgetting about turtles. Nov 11, 2007
sionnach c_b: I agree. loggerheads is on my list of amber words. Though I'm not sure I agree with your usage example - I think of being at loggerheads as meaning "to have diametrically opposing views", which is not quite what I would infer from your example Nov 11, 2007
chained_bear The Wordnet definition is odd to me--I only ever heard this word used in a phrase with "at," and always as describing a situation, not a person, e.g. "they were at loggerheads over whether to declare war." Nov 11, 2007