head-shrinker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink. slang
    — DIESEL: In the opinion on this court, this child is depraved on account he ain't had a normal home. ACTION: Hey, I'm depraved on account I'm deprived. DIESEL: So take him to a headshrinker.
  2. One who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes. literally
    — I listened to the sculptor of Dead Dad give an interview to a European television station while he crouched by the shrunken corpse of his own creation, a huge technical advance over the headshrinkers of New Guinea.

词形变化

head-shrinkers plural headshrinker alternative

词源

Originally US, probably by reference to slang terms like “swelled head” for someone with delusions of grandeur; a psychiatrist would remove such delusions, thus figuratively shrinking the patient's swelled head.
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