"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."
双语例句
1. He is a hothead and a bully just like his dad.
他和他爸爸一样都是个恃强凌弱的莽夫。
来自柯林斯例句
2. She's such a hothead.
她真是个急性子.
来自互联网
3. Or some hothead trying to challenge you because his sister wants to meet you?
你能想象被一些冲动的家伙挑衅仅仅是因为他的妹妹想见见你?
来自互联网
4. He was such a hothead, he slammed down his coffee mug and broke it.
