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The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.) / (slang) An ignorant, naive, foolish, or stupid person. / (slang) A telemark skier.

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Source Word

pinhead

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpɪn.hɛd/

Noun

slang

Japanese Meaning

ピンの頭部（ピンの先端部分、サイズ比較で用いられる） / （俗語）愚か者、鈍感で馬鹿な人 / （俗語）テレマークスキーをする人

What is this buttons?

The speck of dust was no larger than a pinhead resting on the table.

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そのホコリの粒は、テーブルの上にあるピンの頭ほどの大きさもなかった。

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The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)

The moment the nitre was red hot, the coal, previously reduced to small pieces of the size of a pinhead, was projected in portions of one or two grains at a time…

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(slang) An ignorant, naive, foolish, or stupid person.

I don't want to be a pinhead no more / I just met a nurse that I could go for

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(slang) A telemark skier.

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(slang, medicine) A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in freak shows as "human pinheads".

The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile.

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