blockheadnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈblɒk.hed/us/ˈblɑːk.hed/old-fashioned informala stupid person
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stupid and silly people
- a right one idiom
- airhead
- asshole
- berk
- birdbrain
- doofus
- dork
- duffer
- dullard
- dummy
- muggins
- muppet
- mutt
- need
- need your head examined idiom
- simpleton
- stupid
- thicko
- tosser
- turkey
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Examples from literature
- He is also sufficiently artful to conceal the fact that he considers the person he is talking to a mixture of a snob and a blockhead.
- I burn with indignation yet, as I think of a malignant blockhead who once taught me for a few months.
- Such fellows as these are ever your dullest of blockheads.
- They irritate one another so uselessly by calling one another fools, blockheads, liars, and so forth for no purpose.
- Who asked thee to meddle in my affairs, or to inquire whether I am a wise man or a blockhead?