baldy colloq.
(ˈbɔːldɪ)
[f. bald a. + -y6.]
A bald-headed person. Also transf. and as a nickname. Also as adj. and in Comb., baldy-headed adj., Sc. and dial.
| 1863 Rio Abajo Press 28 Apr. 2/2 Within the perlieus [sic] of the Rio Chiquito and ‘Old Baldy’. 1909 Webster Baldy, somewhat bald. 1916 Joyce Portr. Artist (1917) 59 He thought of the baldy head of the prefect of studies. 1925 Scots Mag. Dec. 196 A big, gauky stirk o' a bauldy-heided dominy! 1927 A. Clarke Son of Learning iii. 54 There is a baldy spot Lighting your crown. 1931 ‘Dean Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 199 Baldy, generally an old man ‘with a high forehead’. 1936 F. Clune Roaming the Darling xvi. 143 A baldy and paunchy old cove, hosing down the footpath. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xi. 99 He's got a couple of good sorts of mares and a good-looking baldy chestnut. 1944 A. Clarke Viscount of Blarney (1945) 35 I'll leave the lantern..for old baldy pate. 1952 B. Malamud Natural 89 Pop scratched his baldy. 1953 in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 15/2 Baldies are more romantic. 1959 I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xvi. 359 The only thing I dinna like Is the baldy-headed master. |