Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having two heads or faces on one body, as the god Janus or a natural monstrosity.
- Directed by two heads or chiefs; existing under two coördinate authorities.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having two heads or faces on one body.
- adj. Directed by two heads or chiefs; existing under two coordinate authorities.
Etymologies
- From two- + headed. Compare twi-headed. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Say what you will about Britney, she would never film a video that included shots of a two-headed, albumen-covered Baby Britney emerging from her own uterus while a voiceover discussed the mitosis of the universe.”
The Washington Post: Poll: With her new video, has Lady Gaga reached the overexposure tipping point?
“Assume that a leader's posture is a two-headed hydra--one part not explicitly acknowledging in broad marketing the existence of a threat; the other taking positive, explicit, sometimes expensive steps to protect and grow your leadership position.”
Forbes: How Toyota Is Defending Prius With Packaged Goods Tactics
“One veteran analyst on the Islamic Republic of Iran and on the struggle between the Mullahs and the Iranian "Nationalists" led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that there is today in Tehran "a two-headed eagle; and a two-headed eagle cannot fly".”
The Huffington Post: Raghida Dergham: Moscow's Hesitancy to Support the Arab Uprisings
“In the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a medical collection that displays the tallest skeleton in North America alongside a pickled two-headed baby and a 9ft-long human colon, is a nondescript plan chest.”
The Guardian: Swallow: Foreign Bodies by Mary Cappello – review
“On the first scan they were the size of a two-headed pumpkin.”
“On the follow-up they were smaller — a two-headed tomato.”
“Our Pegasus is a real horse, black with wings, and we added harpies, two-headed dogs and humans who evolve into Arabic genies.”
“If you haven't read AtWS yet -- dude, it has a sun-swallowing wolf and a giant telepathic steam-powered flying two-headed metal pony.”
“Under surrealism, price determination will be based on the toss of a two-headed cloud during the hours of 3:00am to eleventy-never, while money will be different kinds of soup, ranging from New England barbed wire to cream of enervation.”
The Huffington Post: Spencer Green: Capitalism to Be Replaced By Surrealism
“And a risqu é sculpture of a two-headed nude girl by Jake and Dinos Chapman sold to an Asian telephone bidder for £ 91,250, three times its high estimate.”
The Wall Street Journal: Christie's Auction Gets Warhol Boost
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘two-headed’.
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Polycephaly - A Many-Headed List
A list of terms for things with many heads, including animal monsters, plants, human and animal chimera, mythical beings, &c., including the terms to describe them.
polycephaly, three-headed, four-headed, five-headed, six-headed, seven-headed, ten-headed, twelve-headed, thirteen-headed, fifteen-headed, seventeen-headed, two-headed and 49 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
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