Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A silly, rather unintelligent person.
- n. An area of hostile or enemy-controlled territory secured by paratroops or air-assault forces.
Wiktionary
- n. pejorative A silly, foolish or unintelligent person.
- n. A landing area for aircraft for supplying an operation, military or other, usually temporary.
- n. military An area of hostile territory that has been seized by paratroopers or helicopter-based troops to ensure the further landing of troops and/or materiel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. disparaging an airheaded person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
- n. a flighty scatterbrained simpleton
Etymologies
- air + head, by analogy with beachhead, bridgehead, railhead. (Wiktionary)
- air + (beach)head. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“CNN's daily fascination with this airhead is bordering on the creepy. tee”
“All these "airhead" comments reflect your lack of maturity!”
“Please, someone explain to this woman that she cannot see Russia from her house, and that statement make her come across as an "airhead".!”
“It's hard to imagine now, but 31 years ago, when I first announced that I was supporting Reagan in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, I was routinely asked by friends on the right how I could possibly associate myself with this "airhead," this B movie star, who was not only stupid but incompetent.”
“Somehow with Obama, "airhead" just doesn't pass muster.”
“For the "airhead" caricature to stick, there has to be some element of truth to it.”
“So she inevitably sounds like an "airhead" because the columns are meant to be read beyond it's veneer of superficiality.”
Times Public Editor Hammers Maureen Dowd's Coverage Of Hillary
“How about some connection with the air you have to whip into the cream to make the dessert - akin to the modern term "airhead"?”
“He thought I was some kind of airhead academic, and I thought he was rather an arrogant young member of Congress.”
“Thus we witness the tawdry spectacle of media warriors such as CNN's Glen Beck, Ann Coulter, and others call Sheehan everything from a "tragedy pimp" to an "airhead" to the "commander in grief.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘airhead’.
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Just not to bright
words describing people or things that just aren't very intelligent
galah, idiot, simpleton, dufus, dummy, stupid, moron, moronic, idiocy, dimwit, special, on the short bus and 10 more...
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Political Pet Names
Ah, the language of endearment...
Feel free to add your favorite insult. Please include quotes or sources if you can. Thanks!
Please note: while this is a list about stuff...nutroots, rethuglican, wingnut, moonbat, libtard, obamabot, bushie, krudd, democrats, republicunts, repubs, leftist and 67 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
idiot, cretin, moron, dimwit, nincompoop, meathead, addlepate, dingbat, dumbbell, dunce, fool, halfwit and 31 more...
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nonhead heads
figuratively named things with head
goathead, deadhead, arrowhead, warhead, airhead, cathead, bubblehead, egghead, hogshead, railhead, Tallulah Bankhead, bridgehead and 53 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 597 more... -
Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Man likes these words
danube, schadenfreude, macabre, wanderlust, epiphany, azure, zeitgeist, cerulean, ennui, rhine, abyss, mulch and 130 more...
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Military Matters
words of mass (or minor) destruction
caltrop, stylet, chassepot, baldric, rewet, blunderbuss, musket, flintlock, howitzer, ordnance, casque, dragoon and 148 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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What Keeps Your Ears Apart?
A sort of stuffie of words/phrases that include "head"
head of cattle, out of one's head, head of the stairs, come to a head, head of steam, head of the page, win by a head, head taller, headway, fountainhead, heads or tails, hit the nail on t... and 143 more...
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forbidden
contains certain adult slang terms
shaft, rod, prick, manhood, booblicious, pussylicious, tatas, bodacious, melons, joyhole, little fella, cock and 26 more...
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people
authoress, arm candy, doppelganger, contender, portraitist, acolyte, hierophant, whistleblower, scrivener, querent, banshee, jester and 81 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for airhead.
man An area in enemy territory or in threatened friendly territory, seized by airborne troops for bringing in supplies and additional troops by airdrop or landing. ;) Jan 19, 2007