bubble-headedadj.
/ˌbʌblˈhɛdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈbəblˌhɛdəd/ Foolish, unintelligent; frivolous. Cf. airheaded adj. at airhead n. Derivatives.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective]
idlec825
giddyc1000
volage?a1366
apec1370
foolisha1382
vain1390
idleful1483
volageous1487
glaikit1488
cock-brained1530
apish1532
empty1550
sillyc1555
frivolous?1563
tickle-headed1583
light-braineda1593
frothy1593
owlish1596
bird-witted1605
empty-headed1614
idle-headed1614
empty-pateda1628
marmosetical1630
grollish1637
feather-headed1647
nonsense1647
whirl-crowned1648
feather-brained1649
swimmering1650
soft-pated1651
weather-headeda1652
shuttlecock1660
drum-headed1664
chicken-brained1678
halokit1724
desipient1727
shatter-pated1727
scattered-brained1747
light-thoughted1777
scatter-brained1804
shandy-pated1806
hellicat1815
feather-pated1819
inane1819
weather-brained1826
bubble-headed1827
tomfoolish1838
bird-brained1892
tottle1894
fluffy1898
scatty1911
wandery1912
scattery1924
twitterpated1943
1827 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 22 Sept. 818 It is worth..the long-winded stuff of a writer..who..I should take for a bubble-headed stock-jobber.
1899 T. E. Smith Polit. Truth 189 The ideal legislator..never permits himself to be spoiled by a lot of bubble headed ‘social lights’.
1954 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 8/2 Is it some..esoteric force, known only to the bubble-headed fellows in the science-fiction realms?
1995 Entertainm. Times 14 June 4/3 The Boy Friend..is..the perfect spoof on the Kern-type bubbleheaded musical comedies of the late 1910s and early 1920s.
2001 C. Benard Turning on Girls 85 Are they on top of things? At times they seem sort of bubble-headed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1827