English

greasehead

From grease + head.

A compound of grease + head

Latin crassus ‘fat, thick’

Vulgar Latin *crassia ‘fat’

Anglo-Norman grece

Middle English grece

Proto-Indo-European *kap- ‘head’

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Proto-Germanic *haubudą ‘head’

Proto-West Germanic *haubud

Old English hēafod ‘head’

Middle English heed ‘head’

English head

Today it means

noun One of Italian or Hispanic descent.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / greasehead