What's the difference between hothead and pothead?

Hothead


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Getty Images Böhnhardt is said to have been more hotheaded.
  • (2) The deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, argued that the delivery of the S-300 system had been previously agreed with the Syrian government in Damascus and would be a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
  • (3) Since taking office as prime minister for the second time a year ago, stocky, tousle-haired Abe, 59, has avoided hotheaded actions and kept his political powder dry.
  • (4) In the next stage, more Israelis will take to the streets and take the law into their own hands, and we have no shortage of hotheads,” warned Alex Fishman, security correspondent for Israel’s top-selling daily, Yedioth Ahronoth.
  • (5) Make the opposition work for their concessions, and when the deal is struck make them feel that they have done well.” But some reflections may reassure sceptics worried that the British team is led by hotheads.
  • (6) In words apparently aimed at the UK, Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, described the missiles as a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
  • (7) Shogo Suzuki, an expert on Sino-Japanese relations and visiting associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, said: "All it takes is one hothead to pull the trigger and the whole thing spirals out of control.
  • (8) In Moscow, the foreign ministry said Lavrov had asked Kerry to "pressure Kiev to stop hotheads from provoking a bloody conflict and to encourage the Ukrainian authorities to strictly fulfil their obligations".
  • (9) Perhaps with a cry of "Put your dukes up, Obama", as the impetuous hothead hurdles over seats to uphold the family honour.
  • (10) Wise and venerable consultants, offering sympathy for those hotheaded kids, do actually have a horse in the race themselves.
  • (11) Michelle Dockery – now known all over the world as the frosty Lady Mary – has a successful career as a jazz singer and has performed with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern , who plays her on-screen mother, the Countess of Grantham.
  • (12) Analysts, law enforcement sources and cartel contacts agree generational change is contributing to the unease: traditionalists often point to the hotheaded and exhibitionist tendencies of such narco “juniors”, whose inherited power and wealth contrast with the rags-to-riches struggles of their fathers.
  • (13) Prosecutors allege he intentionally killed her after a fight in the early hours of 14 February 2013 and have sought to paint him as a hothead with an inflated sense of entitlement and an obsession with firearms.
  • (14) Lippi threw his energies into creating a compact group of players with no room for hotheads, but pundits were quick to point out that the team he fielded against Slovakia showed no sign of team spirit.
  • (15) Abedi began wearing more traditional Arab dress and was seen by one neighbour saying Islamic prayers loudly in the street, but he remained hotheaded and volatile, picking fights with neighbours over issues such as where their cars were parked.
  • (16) It was the Vienna convention that in 1981 protected a young hotheaded diplomat by the name of Moussa Koussa , who publicly approved the planned assassination of Libyan dissidents.
  • (17) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
  • (18) But it'll be hard to beat opening for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival last year with my band, Sadie And The Hotheads .
  • (19) My new favourite Game Of Thrones castmember is now Cersei Lannister, for whom I didn't care much last time, but now she's out of the shadow of that wheezing hothead King Robert, is growlingly sublime.
  • (20) But we know that both Kennedy and Khrushchev believed it was important to de-escalate, important to control the hotheads in each of their governments, and important enough to risk their own leadership to do so.

Pothead


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the uninitiated, the place to start is their 1978 debut movie, Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke , which follows the potheads on a road trip through California that winds up with them being deported to Mexico.
  • (2) Siddiqi confirms that the young Obama, a high school pothead, "was lighthearted and fun-loving for the first half of our cohabitation and grew serious later".
  • (3) Suggested by SirRoystenMerchant This 90s stoner comedy, the brainchild of rapper Ice Cube, stars Chris Tucker as Smokey, a pothead who sells (or, in reality, smokes) weed on behalf of Big Worm, the local dealer.
  • (4) There are a lot of displaced Californians here who have left their state going to the potheads and down the toilet, and now they want to do the same here."
  • (5) Doc Sportello, the pothead PI played by Joaquin Phoenix, scrawls: “Paranoia alert” instead of sensible notes; turtles up on the pavement to avoid his regular LAPD beating; body-swerves like Ace Ventura away from annoyingly secretive sanatorium attendants.
  • (6) Photograph: Benjamin Rasmussen for the Guardian He may be Denver's most famous pothead, but William Breathes isn't his real name.
  • (7) We’re active and athletic, not some lazy potheads lying on a sofa.” Some former Kushtowners have graduated to sponsorship deals and professional racing, notably Edgar Juarez, AKA Willo, a former gang member who served time in jail and is now a celebrity for his racing exploits .
  • (8) He lived in Antigua, a hippy pothead with a zest for life who was known as the island's first white Rastafarian.
  • (9) Hearing the drumbeat of the pro-marijuana lobby, you'd be excused if you believed the typical Jamaican was a Rastafarian pothead lazing on the beach amid the soporific sound of Bob Marley's One Love.
  • (10) We’re active and athletic, not some lazy potheads lying on a sofa Kushtown co-founder Hansel Echevarria Facebook Twitter Pinterest Racers and couriers chat ahead of the Hope St event.
  • (11) Butler's childhood, though, was defined to a degree by the family's move from Truckee in northern California – "a community of creative potheads" – to Houston, which he describes as "a pretty big culture shock".
  • (12) After dismissal, he and his pothead buddies tramped a mile to the west gate to toke up.
  • (13) Wearing socks festooned with blue marijuana leaves, he's as evangelical as the next pothead, but with articulacy, ethics and punctuation to impress any of his journalist peers.

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