† weather-headedadj.
Obsolete.
Light-headed, foolish.
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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
a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iv. iii. 86 in Five New Playes (1659) Here come more of our weather-headed wise neighbours.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 25 For that old, Weather-headed fool, I know how to laugh at him.
1823 W. Scott Peveril I. vi. 160 You deserved to be ducked for it..for a weather-headed puppy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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