Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pain in the head.
- noun Informal Something, such as a problem, that causes annoyance or trouble.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pain in the cranial part of the head, apparently somewhat deep-seated as compared with the sensation produced by a superficial irritation of the scalp.
- noun The corn-poppy, Papaver Rhæas, the odor of which is said to cause headache. Also called
head-wark .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pain orache in thehead . - noun figurative A
nuisance orunpleasant problem .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs
- noun something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- noun pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs
Etymologies
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Examples
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What is called "_sick headache_," or "nervous headache," begins by a sense of blindness or blur, before the eyes, of green or purple colors, dazzling or swimming in the head, without, for some time at first, any positive aching or pain.
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a disordered stomach causes severe headache, known as _sick headache_.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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God's sake, the headache is the most common medical condition plaguing human beings!
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Pat had elected to stay in bed, in consequence of what he called headache and his sisters translated as
The Love Affairs of Pixie George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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(An alternative name for this kind of headache is 'suicide headache' because sufferers have been known to resort to the ultimate headache cure.)
Happy? New Year Sharon Bakar 2005
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This kind of headache is generally only suffered by men, is typically suffered intensely over a period of weeks with a long period of remission in between, is extremely rare, and is off the Richter scale of painfulness.
Happy? New Year Sharon Bakar 2005
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The doctors 'biggest headache is a 1997 law that will reduce doctors' Medicare payments by 23 percent on Dec. 1 unless Congress postpones the cut, an action that most lawmakers believe is likely.
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After searching the Internet, she discovered that one of the causes of a cough headache is a Chiari 1 malformation of the skull.
Woman's crushing headache took years to diagnose Sandra G. Boodman 2010
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But since chronic headaches are mainly experienced by women of reproductive age, chronic daily headache is thought to happen to 10 percent of them.
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The doctors 'biggest headache is a 1997 law that will reduce doctors' Medicare payments by 23 percent on Dec. 1 unless Congress postpones the cut, an action that most lawmakers believe is likely.
Health care law fact check: Medicaid, health spending, and abortion myths and missteps N.C. Aizenman 2010
bilby commented on the word headache
Not tonight darling, I have to go and make a Headache list on Wordie.
September 30, 2008
frogapplause commented on the word headache
That's good for one night. Then what?
September 30, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word headache
Then you just pick something from mollusque's list.
September 30, 2008
bilby commented on the word headache
Try this.
November 5, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word headache
I think that's terrific!!! How do you come across things like that?
And is it just me, or does the speed change according to the position of the cursor?
November 5, 2009
bilby commented on the word headache
PU, use the links at the top of the page for more conceptual 'sites' ... Mr Nice Hands reminds me of palooka :-)
Yes, the cursor does affect the speed.
November 5, 2009