beastlyhead
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From beastly + -head (“-hood”).
Noun[edit]
beastlyhead (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The character or quality of a beast; beastliness.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
- Sicke, sicke, alas! and little lack of dead, / But I be relieved by your beastlyhead.