Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Light-headed; empty-headed; foolish.

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Examples

  • Call yourself a coachie, why, you're nothing but a buffle-headed, cork-brained souse-crown! "

    The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996

  • "If you are planning to use your knee on an attacker," the Duke of Mitford said to a flushed, disheveled, and diminutive female, "it is the most cork-brained thing I ever heard of, ma'am, to tell him so.

    Unlikely Duchess Balogh, Mary 1990

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