Blockhead

Word BLOCKHEAD
Character 9
Hyphenation block head
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Blockhead"

What do we mean by blockhead?

A person regarded as very stupid; a dolt. noun

A head-shaped piece of wood used as a block for hats or wigs. noun

A head containing no more intelligence or sense than a block; a blockish head. noun

A person possessing such a head; a stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. noun

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. noun

A stupid person. noun

A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence noun

A stupid person.

A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Blockhead

The word "blockhead" in example sentences

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I never heard the word blockhead applied to a woman before, though I do not see why it should not, when there is evident occasion for it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The son of a scribe, who causes the water to run out which little Jesus had collected in puddles, he calls a blockhead, and impious fellow, and causes him to become withered. ❋ 1872-1959 (1907)

I never heard the word blockhead applied to a woman before, though I do not see why it should not, when there is evident occasion for it [1344]. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

We may smile when he calls a blockhead, a blockhead; a dotard, a dotard; but when he attacks, for a difference of opinion, the ❋ Isaac Disraeli (1807)

Just watch "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" -- which, as it happens, airs tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC -- and make a list of how many times the kid gets screamed at or called a blockhead or threatened with legal action simply because he chooses to spend his Halloween night in a pumpkin patch. ❋ Jen Chaney (2010)

Walter Scott was called a blockhead by his teacher. ❋ Orison Swett Marden (1887)

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown -- which, as it happens, airs tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC -- and make a list of how many times the kid gets screamed at or called a blockhead or threatened with legal action simply because he chooses to spend his Halloween night in a pumpkin patch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the Christmas show, Charlie Brown is ridiculed for his selection of a tree and he's referred to as a blockhead, but he also manages to have a number of civil conversations with his classmates and they ultimately treat him well, in keeping with the spirit of the season. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the "blockhead" knew what he was about, and after a half circle to test the working of the engines, he opened the throttle and shot her upwards at a terrific speed. ❋ D. H. Parry (1915)

Charles I and still more upon Salmasius, for whom its least offensive titles are such as "blockhead," "liar" and "apostate," exceed even the wide limits of abuse customary in these days. ❋ John Cann Bailey (1897)

Callimachus a 'blockhead' (so finished was his invective), the veteran compared his rival to the Ibis, the scavenger-bird. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (1878)

She simply called her a "blockhead," who believed, like all country-people, that a few days in bed means death. ❋ Edmond De Goncourt (1859)

Sometimes, in his absence, a boy was made to sit in his place for punishment, for being a "blockhead" too, as I imagined. ❋ Lucy Larcom (1858)

Aunt Hannah often called him a "blockhead," and I supposed it was because he sat on that block. ❋ Lucy Larcom (1858)

For example, I knew old --- myself; and can testify, if you will believe me, that few greater blockheads (if "blockhead" may mean "exasperated imbecile" and the ninth part of a thinker) broke the world's bread in his day. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Better off, for a great many reasons; for this reason, were there no other: the silent one is not admired; the silent suspects, perhaps partly admits, that he is a kind of blockhead, from which salutary self-knowledge the excellent stump-orator is debarred. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

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