bother-headedadj.

Brit.

/ˈbɒðəˌhɛdᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈbɑðərˌhɛdəd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bother n., headed adj.

Etymology: < bother n. + headed adj. Compare earlier botherheadedness n.

Stupid, foolish; muddle-headed. Also: confused.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective]

redelessOE

mopishc1300

tottedc1500

addle1534

muddy?1571

addle1576

foggya1591

foggy-brained1594

addled1599

addle-headed1600

bezzled1604

addle-pated1614

addle-brained1619

buzzle-headeda1644

puzzle-headed1729

puzzle-pated1736

muddle-headed1760

ramble-headeda1761

hulver-headed1785

ramfeezled1786

muddled1790

hoddy-doddya1798

muzzy-headed1798

bother-headed1820

muddle-pated1823

pixilated1848

woolly1864

bungle-headed1865

mixed1880

muddlesome1887

wifty1918

woozy1941

spastic1981

1820 E. L. Palmerston Let. 13 Oct. in Lett. Lady Palmerston (1957) iii. 51 Flinn is quite a mad Irishman, bother-headed and wild.

1827 Lancet 6 Jan. 435/1 I had inflammatory fever..was bother-headed, could neither read nor do any thing else.

1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton Parisians II. iv. vi. 73 I..am awfully bother-headed how to manage some correspondence.

1916 19th Cent. & After Sept. 499 The Prime Minister made his week-end flight to Ireland, with the bother-headed good intentions awakened by the Rising.

1955 Sewanee Rev. 63 479 Blackmur..feels to me a great deal more humane and less off the point than these bother-headed theoretical critics.

2000 C. Norris Minding Gap vii. 198 The bother-headed worries of philosophers locked in the endless sterile debate between realism and antirealism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bother-headed
释义	bother-headedadj. Brit. /ˈbɒðəˌhɛdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈbɑðərˌhɛdəd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bother n., headed adj. Etymology: < bother n. + headed adj. Compare earlier botherheadedness n. Stupid, foolish; muddle-headed. Also: confused. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective] redelessOE mopishc1300 tottedc1500 addle1534 muddy?1571 addle1576 foggya1591 foggy-brained1594 addled1599 addle-headed1600 bezzled1604 addle-pated1614 addle-brained1619 buzzle-headeda1644 puzzle-headed1729 puzzle-pated1736 muddle-headed1760 ramble-headeda1761 hulver-headed1785 ramfeezled1786 muddled1790 hoddy-doddya1798 muzzy-headed1798 bother-headed1820 muddle-pated1823 pixilated1848 woolly1864 bungle-headed1865 mixed1880 muddlesome1887 wifty1918 woozy1941 spastic1981 1820 E. L. Palmerston Let. 13 Oct. in Lett. Lady Palmerston (1957) iii. 51 Flinn is quite a mad Irishman, bother-headed and wild. 1827 Lancet 6 Jan. 435/1 I had inflammatory fever..was bother-headed, could neither read nor do any thing else. 1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton Parisians II. iv. vi. 73 I..am awfully bother-headed how to manage some correspondence. 1916 19th Cent. & After Sept. 499 The Prime Minister made his week-end flight to Ireland, with the bother-headed good intentions awakened by the Rising. 1955 Sewanee Rev. 63 479 Blackmur..feels to me a great deal more humane and less off the point than these bother-headed theoretical critics. 2000 C. Norris Minding Gap vii. 198 The bother-headed worries of philosophers locked in the endless sterile debate between realism and antirealism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1820
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