Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A stupid person; a dolt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A heavy, stupid fellow.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Etymologies
- Probably alteration of lump1 + head. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You can probably cut out all of the references to being on top of the Empire State Building, because it won't fit the situation and you really don't want your intended thinking you're some kind of lunkhead who doesn't know New York City from Botswana.”
“He has heard every kind of lunkhead stereotype about people in construction.”
“With Vin Diesel's sinister but lovable lunkhead Dom back in the driver's seat, thousands of theatergoers returned for the fourth installment of the street racing franchise, which also posted the best April opening week as it shot past the previous record of $42.2 million, set by "Anger Management" in 2003.”
“Things are now so bad on the lunkhead front that, in a new poll, Iowans are no longer interested in the current crop of Republican cretins.”
“As is pointed out to us frequently, making things clearer for the lunkhead software also happens to make it clearer (or less likely to be less clear) to humans.”
I come to praise potential ambiguity, not to bury it « Motivated Grammar
“As the story progresses, we follow our lunkhead hero Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) on his steps up the military ladder, and we find out, through deeply satirical propaganda adverts that punctuate the action, that this war might not be so just and that the humans we've been cheering are from afascist society.”
“Moreno makes the most of the one-note lunkhead Timothy by keeping his appetites simple.”
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“And you may very well be in a position where the opinion of the misinformed matters to you; you might be an author, editor, or even a job applicant whose cover letter will be read by a lunkhead whose personal grammatical prejudices may blind him to your outstanding qualities.”
Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish « Motivated Grammar
“He could be beaten, tasered or even shot for trying to argue with a law-enforcement lunkhead.”
“I love how the writers and Ed took his initially annoyingly hateful character from the beginning to the lovable lunkhead that he is today … Kudos to the Nard Dog!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lunkhead’.
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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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Looks like a digraph, but isn't
mishap, mishear, boathouse, courthouse, chophouse, ungainly, anthill, pothole, haphazard, upholstery, hothead, upheaval and 16 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
nincompoop, dimwit, moron, cretin, idiot, meathead, dingbat, nerd, loony, fool, dunce, lamebrain and 31 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 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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thou varlet!
insults that roll trippingly off the tongue
varlet, addlepated, knucklehead, schmuck, ignoramus, bedlamite, nincompoop, nitwit, knave, bungler, blockhead, galoot and 91 more...
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Silly-Sounding Suckers
degringolade, squoze, hootenanny, abligurition, aberuncate, all-overish, hooroosh, booboisie, smell-feast, petcock, obzocky, jehu and 31 more...
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elbowcrannies's Words
leer, lurch, lurk, legume, concubine, lunkhead, sinew, gregarious, rumpus, trousers, gourmand, serendipity and 15 more...
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Schlockie: The Dark Half
Words and citations from Stephen King's 'The Dark Half'.
golf lies, dimbulb, boneatorium, perp, yea, lit, moulage, crawdaddy, dumpatorium, bank-teller, exercise wheel, presque vu and 34 more...
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russell's Words
tapas, malarkey, pedantic, intrepid, schmooze, wonk, boobs, flickr, ribaldry, ribald, juxtapose, sidereal and 46 more...
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I'm Surrounded by Idiots
Ways to say someone is stupid, inept, etc. (nouns)
idiot, moron, ignoramus, dummy, dumbass, stupid, bonehead, meathead, featherbrain, scatterbrain, dumb, twit and 60 more...
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Words for Dolts
blatherskite, saphead, nincompoop, cretin, mooncalf, lunkhead, gormless
Tweets
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bilby "'Judas Priest! I'm such a lunkhead!'
Thad, who could not have agreed more, said: 'Give me his number, please.'"
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King. Dec 31, 2007
stpeter A modification of lumphead, it seems. Feb 2, 2007