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[1] hǫfuðhvessingr (m.) ‘head-sharpener’: Not otherwise attested as a cpd. The first part, hǫfuð-, is most likely an intensifying element (cf. Falk 1914b, 53), the second element is from the weak verb hvessa ‘sharpen’; hence ‘mighty sharpener’.