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† grout-head Obs.
Also 6 growthed.
[f. grout n., taken as the type of something big and coarse; cf. pudding-head. In 2 there is confusion with great; perh. the sound recalled the Du. groot.]
1. A blockhead, thickhead, dunce.
1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. E iij, So daintye mouthed were these greasye grout heades. 1573Tusser Husb. li. (1878) 115 Though sleeping one hower refresheth his song, yet trust not hob growthed for sleeping too long. 1597–8W. Haughton Englishm. for money iv. i. (1616) F 4, Then, theres not onely a growte head, but an Asse also. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 39 Those Turbanto grout-heads, that hang all men by the throates on Iron hookes. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Gros, Il a vne grosse teste, he is a verie blockhead, grouthead, ioulthead. 1649Woodstock Scuffle xlviii. in Scott Woodst. App. i, The old parsons..are out-driv'n; Their colledges dispos'd, and livings, To grout-heads.
2. A big head; a person with a big head.
a1627Middleton & Rowley Sp. Gipsy iv. i. (1653) G, We no Camells have to shew, nor Elephant with growte head. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Grout-head, one that has a great⁓head.
Hence † grout-headry, stupidity.
1600Hosp. Incur. Fooles A iv b, This is no two-penie matter, nor no triuiall gridiron grout-headrie. |