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English
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Etymology
From head + butt.
Pronunciation
Noun
headbutt (plural headbutts)
- A sharp blow delivered by driving the head into an opponent or object, generally by lowering the head and charging forward or by rapidly tilting the head backward and then forward.
Translations
sharp blow
- Arabic: نَطْحَة f (naṭḥa)
- Catalan: cop de cap (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 用頭撞/用头撞 (yòng tóu zhuàng)
- Danish: skalle c
- Dutch: kopstoot (nl) m
- Finnish: pääpukkaus
- French: coup de boule (fr) m, coup de tête (fr) m
- Galician: croque (gl) m, cabezada f, trucada (gl) f
- German: Kopfstoß (de) m, Kopfnuss (de) f
- Greek: κουτουλιά (el) f (koutouliá), κεφαλιά (el) f (kefaliá)
- Hungarian: lefejelés
- Icelandic: skalli m
- Irish: poc leis an gceann m, sonc leis an gceann m
- Italian: craniata f, testata (it) f, capocciata f
- Japanese: 頭突き (ja) (zutsuki), チョーパン (ja) (chopan)
- Korean: 박치기 (ko) (bakchigi)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: کەلە (kele)
- Latin: arietatio f
- Maori: tukirae
- Polish: uderzenie głową n, uderzenie z Baśki n (slang)
- Portuguese: cabeçada (pt) f
- Russian: уда́р голово́й m (udár golovój), уда́р ба́шкой m (udár báškoj)
- Spanish: cabezada (es) f, cabezazo (es) m, topetazo
- Swedish: dansk skalle (sv) c, skallning (sv) c
- Turkish: kafa (tr)
- Welsh: peniad m
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Verb
headbutt (third-person singular simple present headbutts, present participle headbutting, simple past and past participle headbutted)
- To deliver a sharp blow by driving the head into an opponent or object.
2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 52:Then he got down on his hands and knees and pretended to headbutt the cat: 'Come on, come on, little ram! Let's see your horns!'
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