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ˈthick-ˈskulled, a.
(-skʌld: stress var.)
Having a thick skull; hence fig. slow or dull of apprehension; dense, dull-witted; = thick-headed.
a1653G. Daniel Idyll. v. 140 As the thick-Skull'd Turke..It baffles vs, with our owne Instrument. 1673Ess. Educ. Gentlewom. 32 Every thick-skull'd Fellow that babbles this out, thinks no Billingsgate Woman can Answer it. 1755Smollett Quix. i. iv. xxi. (1803) II. 258 Is it possible that your worship can be so thick-skulled and brainless, as not to perceive the truth of what I alledge? 1821Scott Let. to Cunningham 27 Apr., The common class of readers..are thick-skulled enough. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. II. 317 Thick-skulled, small-brained, fishy..quadruped.
So ˈthick-skull, a thick-skulled person.
1755Johnson, Dolt, a heavy stupid fellow; a blockhead; a thickscul; a loggerhead. 1838J. Grant Sk. Lond. 223 Says I, ‘You lie, you stupid thickskull!’ 1894Crockett Raiders 346 Such a thick-skull was I. |