jolterhead

Joanna, startled, paused in her stride, but the old man beside her only flicked a finger; from the room beyond came a crashing noise that made the servant turn hastily back, yelling "Not that way, you stupid jolterhead!"

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

As great a jolterhead as any of the foregoing was the hero of a story in Cazotte's "Continuation" of the _Arabian Nights_, entitled

The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869

So the young jolterhead at once "changed his tune," and was loudly singing out these words when he met a funeral.

The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869

"Hold your confounded stupid tongue, will you, you old jolterhead;" and on this occasion he put his hand on his father's shoulder and shook him.

Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

For out of seven hundred men in the ship _Worcester_ -- the same that sank in the Bay of Funchal -- there was not so much as a powder-boy but could understand every word that I said, whereas on shore there is many a great jolterhead, like thyself, who might be a Portugee for all the English that he knows, and who stares at me like a pig in a hurricane if I do lint ask him what he makes the reckoning, or how many bells have gone. '

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Now, if, in the conducting of this business, he shall be found to have acted the part of a stupid country jolterhead, or of a head-strong insolent ass, let him be left to the public contempt; but, if he shall be found to have carried the matter through with due respect towards the Prince and his Ministers, and at the same time, with the spirit and resolution of an independent man, let him have the praise that will be his due.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804

“Hold your confounded stupid tongue, will you, you old jolterhead;” and on this occasion he put his hand on his father’s shoulder and shook him.

Castle Richmond 2004