lustihead

English

Etymology

From Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed; equivalent to lusty +‎ -head. Compare lustihood.

Noun

lustihead (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate, / And all of loue, and all of lusty-hed [...].

   • 1909, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven

     In the rash lustihead of my young powers, / I shook the pillaring hours / And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, / I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— / My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.

Anagrams

• hastilude