Blockhead

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blockhead \Block"head`\, n. [Block + head.]
     A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
           With loads of learned lumber in his head. --Pope.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blockhead
       n : these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's
           intelligence [syn: {dunce}, {dunderhead}, {numskull}, {bonehead},
            {lunkhead}, {hammerhead}, {knucklehead}, {loggerhead}, {muttonhead},
            {shithead}, {fuckhead}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "blockhead":
     addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, blubberhead, blunderer,
     blunderhead, bonehead, boor, botcher, bufflehead, bumbler, bungler,
     cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clod, clodhead, clodhopper,
     clodknocker, clodpate, clodpoll, clot, clown, dimwit, dolt,
     dolthead, dullhead, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummy, dunderhead,
     dunderpate, fathead, fumbler, gawk, gowk, jolterhead, jughead,
     klutz, knucklehead, looby, lout, lubber, lunkhead, meathead,
     muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, nitwit, noodlehead, numskull,
     oaf, ox, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head,
     puzzlehead, slouch, slubberer, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull,
     tottyhead, yokel