| 单词 | pinheadedness |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspinˈheadedness pinˈheadedness n. Chiefly in sense 2.In quot. 1884: the formation of minute rounded masses in flour. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] hardnessOE stuntnessc1000 sotshipc1050 witlessnessa1100 sotheada1200 dullness1398 bluntness1483 slowness1495 grossnessa1530 stupidity?1541 assishness?1548 dastardness1552 lourderie1555 dastardliness1556 blockishness1561 doltishness1569 sottage1569 sheepishness1574 doltry1581 sottishness1589 doltage1593 dorbellism1593 grout-headry1600 opacity1611 duncery1615 dunstery1615 stupidness1619 hebetude1621 insulsity1623 unintelligence1634 obtuseness1648 jobbernowlism1652 dullery1653 non-intelligence1653 blockheadishness1656 crassness1664 blockheadedness1716 stolidness1727 blockheadism1753 numbskullity1779 nincompoophood1791 duncishness1805 numbskullism1806 foziness1821 noodledum1821 obtusity1823 soft-headedness1823 noodledom1827 duncehood1829 dunderheadedness1830 sumphishness1830 asininity1831 dunderheadism1836 stockishness1837 dullardness1840 fat-headedness1840 stupor1845 duncedom1847 misintelligence1848 nincompoopery1850 wooden-headedness1850 dumminess1852 jolterheadedness1852 ninnyship1852 donkeyism1855 dumbness1860 beef-wittedness1863 crassitude1865 donkeyhood1869 slow-wittedness1869 chuckle-headedness1880 leatherheadedness1880 pinheadedness1884 numbskulledness1885 donkeydom1889 thickheadedness1889 density1894 moronism1922 nitwittedness1931 nitwittery1931 noodleness1931 dopiness1942 squirrel-headedness1955 nincompoopism1957 dim-wittedness1960 clottishness1961 1884 Rep. Sel. Comm. Commissariat & Transport Services (Egyptian Campaign) (Minutes of Evid.) 424 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 285) X. 1 The factor first of all looks at it, then he feels it for what is called pinheadedness; which means that, if there is any fermentation setting in, the flour will get into very small tiny balls. 1920 Western Druggist Nov. 348/2 The head of the store put his foot down and..forbade the printing of the article. This is pinheadedness. 1927 Sunday Times Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) 24 Apr. (Mag.) The slavery and oppression of independent thought..under the heels of bigotry, dumb habit,..pinheadedness and pigheadedness of the uninspired. 1958 Think June 20/1 In those rare instances where the brain does not grow, microcephaly, ‘pinheadedness’, is the result, and the child is then an idiot. 1986 Telos Fall 123 The disaffected ‘culture critic’—appalled by the pinheadedness of his colleagues, insulted by the vulgarities of the market,..dreaming of better days. < as lemmas |
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