Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person regarded as very stupid; a dolt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A head-shaped piece of wood used as a block for hats or wigs.
- n. A head containing no more intelligence or sense than a block; a blockish head.
- n. A person possessing such a head; a stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial A stupid person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Etymologies
- 1549, block (“n.”) + head. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
“I never heard the word blockhead applied to a woman before, though I do not see why it should not, when there is evident occasion for it.”
“The son of a scribe, who causes the water to run out which little Jesus had collected in puddles, he calls a blockhead, and impious fellow, and causes him to become withered.”
“I never heard the word blockhead applied to a woman before, though I do not see why it should not, when there is evident occasion for it [1344].”
“We may smile when he calls a blockhead, a blockhead; a dotard, a dotard; but when he attacks, for a difference of opinion, the”
“Just watch "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" -- which, as it happens, airs tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC -- and make a list of how many times the kid gets screamed at or called a blockhead or threatened with legal action simply because he chooses to spend his Halloween night in a pumpkin patch.”
“Walter Scott was called a blockhead by his teacher.”
“It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown -- which, as it happens, airs tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC -- and make a list of how many times the kid gets screamed at or called a blockhead or threatened with legal action simply because he chooses to spend his Halloween night in a pumpkin patch.”
“In the Christmas show, Charlie Brown is ridiculed for his selection of a tree and he's referred to as a blockhead, but he also manages to have a number of civil conversations with his classmates and they ultimately treat him well, in keeping with the spirit of the season.”
Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie
“But the "blockhead" knew what he was about, and after a half circle to test the working of the engines, he opened the throttle and shot her upwards at a terrific speed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blockhead’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
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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unkind words
unkind words or those refering them.
twit, gibe, blockhead, bonehead, cretin, dullard, imbecile, simpleton, clod, dunce, simp, ignoramus and 39 more...
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Peanuts
Words related to the cartoons of Charles M Schulz by the same name.
wishy-washy liberal, peanuts, snoopy, linus, lucy, fussbudget, woodstock, good grief, charlie brown, schroeder, peppermint patty, violet and 17 more...
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I am costanza, lord of the "idiots"!
moron, dolt, knucklehead, buffoon, clown, imbecile, asinine, slow, witless, dimwitted, blockhead, clueless and 10 more...
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Sense and Sensibility
Words from the book by Jane Austen.
shew, shewn, shewing, shewed, dupe, wither, rambled, extorting, cavil, rap, mildness, controuled and 133 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 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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thou varlet!
insults that roll trippingly off the tongue
varlet, addlepated, knucklehead, schmuck, ignoramus, bedlamite, nincompoop, nitwit, knave, bungler, blockhead, galoot and 91 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for blockhead.
hernesheir Name of a medical marijuana strain. Jan 15, 2010
yarb Citation on coal. Jun 28, 2008
gangerh Treeseed, there's a home for your 'cinder blockhead' on a the 'now open' list 'false teeth fairies'. Feb 27, 2008
slumry Frequently, a term for a Scandahoovian. Jul 21, 2007
reesetee It's a good word, to be sure, but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for squarehead. I giggle every time I think of it. So...two-dimensional. Feb 18, 2007
chained_bear This is actually the word for a wooden model of one's head that one would bring to a wigmaker for a custom fitting. Feb 18, 2007