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English
Etymology
From fork + head.
Noun
forkhead (plural forkheads)
- (biochemistry) A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.
- The forked end of a rod in a knuckle joint or similar.
- (obsolete) An arrow with a barbed tip.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:With that at him a quiv'ring dart he threw, / With so fell force, and villeinous despite, / That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew, / And through the linked mayles empierced quite […]
- (minced oath) Euphemistic form of fuckhead.