head-shrinker

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
  2. (literally) One who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.

Übersetzungen

ψυχίατρος

psychiatriste

Psychiatre

cacciatore di teste

encolhimento

Etymologie (Englisch)

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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