blockhead

blockhead

One who is stupid or foolish. Geez, he keeps pulling on a door that's clearly marked "push"—what a blockhead.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

blockhead

n. a stupid person. (see also block.) Without a blockhead like you to remind me of the perils of stupidity, I might be less efficient than I am.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • dinghead
  • dimwit
  • dipwad
  • dingleberry
  • dingus
  • dingy
  • dingbat
  • ding-a-ling
  • dipstick
References in periodicals archive
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead runs on February 11, 12, 13, 14 and 26 at 8 pm and on February 14 at 2:30 pm at the ground floor of Staple and Perk, Ground Floor, Eco Plaza Bldg.
'Dog sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead' sets Asian premiere
Next season the team are planning to change their name to Glynneath Blockheads in honour of " Next season the team are planning to change their name to Glynneath Blockheads in honour o their new patrons.
KICK ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK; Legendary rockers The Blockheads sponsor under-8s football team sponsor under-8s football team
The point being that the dunderheads AKA blockheads will never pick up on what's important; will never be able to rapidly readjust to a new set of facts; will in fact react just like the dodo bird and try to continue to survive in the face of a major change in the environment.
Dunderheads
PATRICK BALDWIN FORTY years after the band first took to the stage, the music of Ian Dury and The Blockheads is still spreading joy across the country.
Ian's lyrics are so sincere - he wrote from the heart; paddy shennan talks to blockhead chaz jankel about musical reasons to be cheerful
(Blockhead, for those unfamiliar with the Peanuts milieu, is what Charlie Brown's friend Lucy usually calls him.)
Twin Bill, a new theater company founded by twins, launches with Dog Sees God'
THE Blockheads have made a name for themselves with their loveable, cocky, schoolboy-rude songs.
Q&A Mick Gallagher: How he'll turn his funeral into a right knees up
After Blockhead I ended up riding for Acme skateboards.
Omar Hassan
` New to the sun protection business is Blockhead, which contains plant-based sunscreens as well as high tech ingredients in a beeswax base.
Three of a kind - Suncare
So Rick Howard was there and he had quit Blockhead and I quit G&S and we were traveling around together and had no money.
The Kris Markovich interview
Newer tunes like "George the Human Pigeon" and "Roll Over" from the 2009 album "Staring Down The Barrel" fit well into the set and are well received by the die-hard Blockhead fans.
REVIEW; The Blockheads, The Globe, Cardiff
Recently I hung up the ol'popsicle stick double-kick for a rad '80s board--an old Jim Grey Blockhead with rails and a tails skid, the whole deal.
Mail drop
Has this government completely lost its senses, here we have a blockhead of a minister advising people that perhaps it would be a good idea to keep a couple of cans of petrol as standby.
A complete bunch of fuels; FEEDBACK
I would never have thought this blockhead would ever have won anything, let alone hero of the year."
Dude is Britain's bravest dog
Wilko still tours constantly in the company of Norman Watt-Roy, former bass player with Ian Dury and The Blockheads, and drummer Moni, another Blockhead whose previous gigs have included Curve and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? DR FEELGOOD
The great Dr Johnson ruled that "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." So I am now, officially, a blockhead.
Keith Hann column