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blockhead
noun- a stupid fool, an idiot UK, 1549
Originally “a wooden base for hats or wigs”, hence “wooden-headed”. - I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. — Abraham Lincoln,
- Peterson’s defense would have been more palatable if it had admitted to his arrogance, lecherousness, and stupidity, and argued that he was too much of a self-centred blockhead to pull off a murder. — Loretta Dillon, Stone Cold Guilty, p. 154, 2005
- a drunken yob UK
This usage was coined by Ian Dury in the song “Blockheads”, which offered the lyrical definition: “pissed up gangs of lads”. - You must have seen parties of Blockheads / With blotched and lagered skin / Blockheads with food particles in their teeth / What a horrible state they’re in[.] — Ian Dury, Blockheads, 1977
- a marijuana user UK, 2001
A combination of BLOCKHEAD - a railway brakeman US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 16, 1977
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