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单词 wooden-head
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Definition of wooden-head in English:

wooden-head

noun
informal
  • A stupid person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The wooden-heads in question must have known what was happening unless they also ‘get the hell out of it’ for that week.
    • It is epitomized in a historian's statement about Philip II of Spain, the surpassing wooden-head of all sovereigns: ‘No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.’
    Synonyms
    idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod

Derivatives

  • wooden-headed

  • adjectiveˌwʊd(ə)nˈhɛdɪdˈwʊdnˌhɛdɪd
    informal
    • Stupid.

      he started to shed the wooden-headed tendencies of his youth
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Certain wooden-headed elements of the left will, of course, continue to assert that little, if anything, new has happened as a result of this election.
      • I blame City Hall, whose wooden-headed staff some years ago conceived the idea of moving Songkran day from its traditional date, and fitting it in with their own, purely local ‘Pattaya Festival’.
      • Paul Winchell was a pioneer of early television, appearing on hundreds of shows with his wooden-headed friends, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff.
  • wooden-headedness

  • noun
    informal
    • But all this matters little, if wooden-headedness continues to prevail with respect to the president.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I remember one incident in which a young student was displaying astonishing wooden-headedness.
      • This is just one prime example of how wooden-headedness is present and the more books one reads the more examples can be uncovered.
 
 

Definition of wooden-head in US English:

wooden-head

nounˈwʊdnˌhɛdˈwo͝odnˌhed
informal
  • A stupid person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is epitomized in a historian's statement about Philip II of Spain, the surpassing wooden-head of all sovereigns: ‘No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.’
    • The wooden-heads in question must have known what was happening unless they also ‘get the hell out of it’ for that week.
    Synonyms
    idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod
 
 
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