squareheadn.

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 293/1 ‘Honesty among thieves’ is undoubtedly the production of a square~head or sham thief; a good thief will rob anybody.

1950 Austral. Police Jrnl. Apr. 119 Square-head (or squarey), one who has no convictions.

1977 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Feb. 5/1 Half an hour or so later a squarehead (criminal slang for someone who is going straight), who was minding the money in a bag for Blair, handed it over to one of the Toecutters.

1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 333/1 Squarehead,..a German or Scandinavian.

1906 Soldier Slang in C. McGovern Sarjint Larry an' Frinds Square-head, a soldier of German birth and addicted to the use of German idioms.

1916 ‘Peter’ Trench Yarns 10 The Squareheads had a brain wave.

1918 H. C. Witwer in Collier's 16 Mar. 21/2 The English call 'em 'Uns..we call 'em squareheads.

1926 Bulletin 24 June 10/3 He was a squarehead, too. They're long on music.

1932 J. Dos Passos 1919 61 She started firing across the North Star's bows with a small gun that the squareheads manned.

1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby v. 95 A bunch of Germans with this mob behaved very differently: the square-heads were sullen and surly.

1953 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Oct. 678/2 Those of Swedish extraction in America, known as squareheads, suffer the reputation of being dull, heavy, stupid, simple.

1973 D. Jones Let. 15 Apr. in R. Hague Dai Greatcoat (1980) iv. 244 In the ranks we often used ‘Squarehead’ of old Jerry—‘That poor old ‘squarehead’ they brought in from last night's raid looked pretty far gone to me.’

1919 Dial. Notes 5 62 Square-head, a dull, stupid person.

1949 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Oct. 10/3 A real ‘square~head’ seaman, who knows what it is like to drift for days without food.

1958 ‘J. Castle’ & A. Hailey Flight into Danger i. 13 This plane is crammed with squareheads who are going to Vancouver..to root like hell for their boys.