| 释义 |
soft-headed, a.
[soft a. 31.]
Weak in intellect; foolish, silly, stupid.
1667Dryden & Dk. Newcastle Sir M. Mar-all iii. i, Adieu soft-headed Sir Martin. 1721Bailey, Cully,..a Fool, a soft headed Fellow. 1782F. Burney Diary 4 Nov., This young man is very..good, and soft-hearted; but alas! he is also soft-headed. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxii, He is a strange, soft-headed, sleepy sort of man. 1884Christian World 21 Feb. 139/4 Large numbers of deluded women and soft-headed men.
Hence soft-headedness.
1862G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar iii, Probably he was making a mental computation of my soft-headedness. |