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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
headshake is a noun meaning "the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement
“I could tell from their headshakes that they didn't believe me”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for headshake come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.