knothead

knothead

slang A stupid, foolish, or incompetent person. I'll never understand why they put that knothead in charge of the project. Terry, you knothead! You put the ink cartridges in backward!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

knothead

n. a stupid person. Don’t be such a knothead!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • put (something) in with (someone or something)
  • put (one's) back into (something)
  • put (one's) back to (something)
  • put back to
  • put on the block
  • put (something) on the block
  • put a cap on
  • put a cap on (something)
  • put a hex on (someone or something)
  • put (something) on the shelf
References in periodicals archive
There are Left states and Knothead states, Left towns and Knothead towns but no center towns....
They are a crucial prop in These are the Meditations of My Heart leading the protagonist, recently-separated from the Knothead, to find a new perspective to life; a cherished heirloom in recurring ruminations of a newspaper columnist; a useful aid for a father to compose a message from Santa Claus to his children; or even a trivia item found by a man waiting in a car for his girlfriend to finish a business meeting.
I think to myself, 'Knothead, why didn't you know?' Of course, there were African-American people that contributed in so many ways to this country," he said.
Usually the next day (the gauges) will perk back to life, or they may jump to life while I'm barreling down the road after some knothead running from a repo.
4, 5 or 6 shot load would rank pretty well centered up on the knothead home invader when delivered down the length of a hallway in the average home.
22, at the Recreation Hall at 1400 Candlelight Drive in Eugene for Shelley Elizabeth "Knothead" Niemi of Springfield, who died Sept.
Such inner dividedness has torn apart most of the families in the novel, and has found its political parallel in the split between the right-wing Knothead Party and the New Left Party, its racial expression in the conflict between whites and black Bantus, and its religious analogue in the split within the Catholic Church between the American Catholic Church and the Dutch Schismatics.
"He said: 'Any knothead could be assistant manager in six months.' I said: 'Thanks for the praise.'"
AVOWMENT, BEHAVING, CHAIRMEN, DRAWLING, ENDARCHY, FOREHAND, GHIRLAND, HORNBEAM, INVADERS, J ..., KNOTHEAD, LINCHARD (lynchet), MERCHANT, NAKEDISH, ONWARDLY, PENUMBRA, QUADRINE, RAVISHED, SHIREMAN, THANEDOM, UNFARMED, VANISHED, WARBLING, X ..., YNWARDES, ZIONWARD
"The Republican Party has become the Knothead Party," after changing its name from" the Christian Conservative Constitutional Party," he writes.
Wolves have been seen in downtown Cleveland, like Rome during the Black Plague." The Republicans and Democrats have reorganized as the Knothead and Left parties, but it hardly matters: "Don't tell me the U.S.A.
``He said, `Any knothead could be assistant manager in six months'.
To wit: They're stubborn knotheads that do their own thing; they're standoffish and aloof; they're uncontrollable runners.
The heavy pipe arbor was riddled--either by honest misses or malicious knotheads with precision rifles.
"We had some good shorthairs back in Utah, but we had some knotheads, too," he recalls of his childhood.