a big head

1. An exaggerated sense of one's importance or status. Often used with the verbs "get" or "have." Jeff has such a big head now that he's captain and thinks he's in charge of everything. Susan got a big head for a while after her promotion, but she's been more modest recently.

2. A conceited person who exaggerates his or her own importance or skillfulness. Bill is such a big-head and thinks he's smarter than everyone else just because he has his PhD.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Demostrate	-	Ancient Greek
Deep	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi
Reynard	RAY-nahrd, REN-ərd	English (Rare)
Ginette	-	French
Adalbert	AH-dahl-bert (German)	Ancient Germanic, German, Polish
Laura	LAWR-ə (English), LOW-rah (Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch), LAW-oo-raw (Hungarian)	English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Croa