pigheaded
See also: pig-headed
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pigheaded (comparative more pigheaded, superlative most pigheaded)
- (mildly derogatory) Obstinate and stubborn to the point of stupidity.
- 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 105:
- " […] I know yeh, yeh pig-headed devil. Yeh wanta go trompin' off with a bad hurt. It ain't right—now—Tom Jamison—it ain't.
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- See also Thesaurus:obstinate
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