blunderheadn.
/ˈblʌndəhɛd/ A blundering muddle-headed fellow.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun]
mafflardc1450
juffler15..
dromedary1567
madbrain1570
batie buma1586
addle-head1592
blunderkin1596
nit1598
addle-pate1601
hash1655
blunderbuss1692
blunderhead1692
shaffles1703
fog-pate1732
blunderer1741
puzzle-pate1761
slouch1767
étourdi1768
botch1769
puddle1782
bumble1789
scatter-brain1790
addle-brain1799
puzzle-head1815
shaffler1828
chowderhead1833
muddlehead1833
muddler1833
flounderer1836
duffer1842
muddle-pate1844
plug1848
incompetent1866
schlemiel1868
dinlo1873
drumble-dore1881
hodmandod1881
dub1887
prune1895
foozler1896
bollock1916
messer1926
Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942
spaz1965
spastic1981
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxiii. 275 This Thick-skulled Blunder-head.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iv. 71 My Fellow's a Blunder-head.
1884 Academy 22 Mar. 199 That order of good-natured blunderheads wherein certain lady novelists..delight.
Derivatives
ˈblunderˌheaded adj. blundering, stupid, muddle-headed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward > blundering, stumbling, or floundering
blundering1367
juffling1535
bumbling1660
blunderheaded1763
1763 Brit. Mag. 4 418 The blunder-headed fellow had laid the white-stone plates.
ˈblunderˌheadedness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inaptitude or awkwardness
unaptness1557
awkness1587
untowardness1598
inaptitude1620
unhandiness1706
inaptness1814
blunderheadedness1835
muffishness1849
muffism1854
dufferdom1856
dufferism1871
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage lvi. 720 With the blunderheadedness of men on such occasions, he assured me that I had been dead two years.
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