fathead

fathead

A dull, stupid, or foolish person. I can't believe you sold your car to pay for a video game console. You can be a real fathead sometimes, you know that?

fatheaded

slang Stupid. Please don't get caught up in Will's latest fatheaded scheme—they never work out.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fathead

n. a stupid person; someone who has fat where brains ought to be. You can be such a fathead!

fatheaded

mod. stupid. Let’s not come up with another fatheaded plan. This one has to make sense.
See also: fathead
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • doofus
  • (my) mama didn't raise no dummy
  • (my) momma didn't raise no dummy
  • fatheaded
  • come out of the box
  • collect dust
  • catch dust
  • out (of) the (starting) blocks
  • out of the blocks
  • out (of) the (starting) gate
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Since a decrease in plasma VTG levels in female fathead minnows is highly correlated to fecundity, KE5, impaired ovulation and spawning (Fig.
Carp, fathead minnows, and northern tidewater gobies were represented by all sizes from small juveniles to large adults.
During 2008, 2011, and 2014, we observed the same distributional pattern for speckled dace in the Blue Spring region and also observed many fathead minnows and common carp occupying 2.7 km of the inflow above Blue Spring.
They found that both gobies and crayfish quickly approached all the egg types, and fathead eggs and perch eggs removed from the skein were all eaten, while skeins were never consumed.
Successful detection of (anti-) androgenic and aromatase inhibitors in pre-spawning adult fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) using easily measured endpoints of sexual development.
We then exposed groups of 5 Nile tilapia, fathead minnows, or mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) to groups of 50 copepods (Table).
Studies listed were conducted according to OECD guidelines and were performed in compliance with GLP regulations Aquatic Toxicity OECD Study Guideline Species Duration Result 201 Green Algae 72 hours [EC.sub.50] = 39 mg/L (Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata) 202 Water Flea 48 hours [EC.sub.50] = 60 mg/L (Daphnia magna) 203 Fathead minnow 96 hours [EC.sub.50] > 100 mg/L (Pimephales prometas) 210 Fathead minnow 33 days NOEC = 9.2 mg/L (Pimephales prometas) 211 Water Flea 21 days NOEC = 9.8 mg/L (Daphnia magna) Environmental Fate OECD Guideline Test Name Result 105 Solubility in water 69,000 mg/L at pH 7 107 n-octanol/water Log Kow = -0.03 partition coefficient (log Kow) 314 Biodegradation in [DT.sub.50] = 21.1 hours; Activated Sludge 39.7% degradation to C[O.sub.2] in 28 days
"They give me life fer just goin' off an leavin' my wife," Fathead said in one exchange.
However, the S3 cohort, also stocked as larvae, had no survival in the presence of an abundant population of fathead minnows.
You won't need many minnows--one fathead minnow can eat 74 mosquito larvae per day.
The ensemble has played with Conrad Herwig, Wayne Bergeron and the late David "Fathead'' Newman, among others, and has been featured at the International Trumpet Guild Conference, toured Russia, and released two CDs.
In 2011, Fathead approached branding firm Finch Brands with a dilemma.
In the case of the Hollywood actor, he had an altercation in Manhattan on Thursday with a photographer and was heard calling the latter "c**ksucking f***t." When his comment became viral on TMZ, the actor insisted he said "fathead" but apologised for first term, insisting he was unaware it is offensive to gays.
We hypothesized that upon exposure to wastewater from the Muncie Water Pollution Control Facility, Indiana, adult male fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) would respond with a decrease in secondary sex characteristics and increased expression of vtg if the effluents contained sufficient estrogens.
2011) and of 40 chemicals for which fathead minnow 21-day short-term reproduction assay data have been reported in the peer-reviewed literature.