词组 | boofhead |
释义 | boofhead noun a person with an oversized head; hence, a fool, idiot, dimwit AUSTRALIA, 1945 In his 1950 prison glossary Thirty-five status that one prisoner was known as “Boof” or “Boofhead” for over 20 years at Goulburn [jail] for the size and thickness of his head, thus dating the term back to the 1930s. It first appears in print in 1941. Popularised by Boofhead, a cartoon character appearing in the Syndey Mirror in the 1940s. Probably a contraction of earlier British and Australian “bufflehead”. The suggestion that it is from British dialect boof (stupit) is chronologically improbable.
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