as in idiot
a stupid person
what pinhead put this together backwards?
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Below this sieve is a fine-mesh sieve that captures fossil bits down to 0.02 inch in size (smaller than a pinhead).
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Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
The eggs are about the size of a pinhead, according to Candace Fallon, senior conservation biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, said.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 June 2024
These sorts of deals sometimes happened between two drunk pinheads in a tent in the evening, sipping gin and getting a map out and drawing lines across a map.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2014
The beads were about the size of pinheads, and archaeologists had to remove each one from the soil block using tweezers.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
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Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
The eggs are about the size of a pinhead, according to Candace Fallon, senior conservation biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, said.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 June 2024
These sorts of deals sometimes happened between two drunk pinheads in a tent in the evening, sipping gin and getting a map out and drawing lines across a map.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2014
The beads were about the size of pinheads, and archaeologists had to remove each one from the soil block using tweezers.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
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“Pinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinhead. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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