English

Alternative forms

• head-cold, headcold

Noun

head cold ‎(plural head colds)

1. A common cold (illness).
   • 1874, Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events, p. 54:

     Wroe would put a pillow in the oven, lay his head on it, and let the oven be heated as hot as he could bear it, to drive away a head cold.

   • 1880, Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, p. 50:

     I am well except a head cold.

   • 1971, Nicholas B. Zinkowski, Commercial Oil-field Diving, p. 22:

     It is unwise to dive with a head cold.

   • 2005, David Hoyle, ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook, p. 608:

     A medical analogy: You have a head cold so you go to the doctor for advice.

Synonyms

• pose (archaic)