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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.
  • Listen, boofhead, you know who I am, but I haven’t got a clue as to who you are! — Rex Hunt, Tall Tales–and True, p. 32, 1994
  • The lawyers sneered. “This boofhead thinks he’s God! Only God can forgive sins!” — Kel Richards, The Aussie Bible, p. 27, 2003
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