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loggerhead
[law-ger-hed, log-er-]
noun
a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
a ball or bulb of iron with a long handle, used, after being heated, to melt tar, heat liquids, etc.
a rounded post, in the stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon line is passed.
a circular inkwell having a broad, flat base.
loggerhead
/ ˈɒɡəˌɛ /
noun
Also called: loggerhead turtle.a large-headed turtle, Caretta caretta, occurring in most seas: family Chelonidae
a North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, having a grey head and body, black-and-white wings and tail, and black facial stripe
a tool consisting of a large metal sphere attached to a long handle, used for warming liquids, melting tar, etc
a strong round upright post in a whaleboat for belaying the line of a harpoon
archaica blockhead; dunce
engaged in dispute or confrontation
Other Word Forms
- ˈDzˌ adjective
- loggerheaded adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of loggerhead1
Word History and Origins
Origin of loggerhead1
Idioms and Phrases
at loggerheads, engaged in a disagreement or dispute; quarreling.
They were at loggerheads over the distribution of funds.
Example Sentences
Most recently, because the public thought they had two big parties that were at loggerheads and in deadlock.
The two have been at loggerheads for months, with Trump repeatedly insisting that South Africa's Afrikaner community is facing a "genocide" - a claim amplified by his close adviser Elon Musk, the South African-born tech billionaire.
When it came to telling Ono’s story, Sheff found himself at loggerheads over the ethics of authoring her biography.
Little says he and Hogshead were at loggerheads when he disagreed with her tactics in confronting universities and entities over violations of Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equality in higher education sports programs.
And that is where the modern left and the modern right are at loggerheads, in the sense that the left sees government as a solution, and the right sees government itself as a problem.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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