different between codehead vs conehead

English

Etymology

code +? -head

Pronunciation

Noun

codehead (plural codeheads)

1. (slang) A computer programming enthusiast.
   • 1997, "William Coleman", Clinton acknowledges the growing Y2K panic (on newsgroup comp.software.year-2000)

     Indeed, a friend of mine who owns a coin-shop in the San Francisco Bay Area reported to me that he already has codeheads coming in to buy gold from him.

   • 2006, Steven Levy, The Trend Spotter (in 2006, Brendan I. Koerner, The Best of Technology Writing 2006)

     In serif type over a glossy white background, there is the title, often naming a computer language or protocol familiar to codeheads and gibberish to everyone else (JavaServer Faces; Essential CVS; Using Samba, 2nd Edition).

Anagrams

• coheaded, headcode

English

Noun

conehead (plural coneheads)

1. Alternative form of Conehead
2. (fashion) A foam rubber rounded cone hat to be worn atop the head as a costume to appear to have a conical bald skull.
3. An insect of the katydid subfamily Conocephalinae.
4. An insect-like arthropod of the order Protura

Synonyms

• (Protura): proturan

Derived terms

• conehead darner (Austroaeschna subapicalis)

Translations

See also

• (fictional alien): Coneheads on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (Conocephalus): Conocephalus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (Protura): Protura on Wikipedia.Wikipedia