fiddleheaded

English

Etymology

From fiddle +‎ headed.

Adjective

fiddleheaded (comparative more fiddleheaded, superlative most fiddleheaded)

  1. Having a fiddlehead; shaped like or terminating in the scroll of a fiddle.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 8”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture. Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship’s fiddle-headed beak.
  2. (archaic, derogatory) Having confused or foolish notions.
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