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单词 knucklehead
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knucklehead
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A knucklehead is a dummy or a numskull. You might criticize your friend's baking skills by saying, "You used salt instead of sugar, you knucklehead!"
Knucklehead is an informal term that can come across as joking rather than insulting, depending how you use it. A pair of brothers might call each other knuckleheads in a fond way: "Hang on, I'm coming with you on your bike ride, you knucklehead!" The word is uniquely American, coined in the late nineteenth century, but made popular in the 1940s by an Army recruitment character known as "R. F. Knucklehead."
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knucklehead: knuckleheads
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John Barnes, a 60-year-old Air Force retiree living in Albuquerque, said he liked that Trump was “hiring outsiders and not local yokel knuckleheads.”
Seattle Times(Dec 18, 2016)
West/east of what ever still has too many knuckleheads.
New York Times(Aug 26, 2016)
Mr. Budbill wrote the poetic dramas “Mannequins’ Demise” and “Knucklehead Rides Again” before publishing his first verse collection, “Barking Dog,” in 1968.
New York Times(Sep 30, 2016)
n a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Syn|Hyper
blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull
dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person
a person who is not very bright
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