Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dull; stupid.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And their mutton-headed logic was that you couldn't assume that God had a linear approach to time, therefore when the prayer took place shouldn't matter.
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Mitt Romney's mutton-headed plan (What me worry?) says who cares about universal health care, we already have it.
Doug Bremner: Are These People Completely Out of Their Minds?
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Shirley needs to be hired just for the satisfaction of being able to promptly fire the mutton-headed delusional old cow.
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I consider them to be the worst kind of mutton-headed numpties.
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He was furious at having to plead with a mutton-headed soldier (he, Sir George Grey, who alone could save Africa!), but he was in that state where he'd have tried to come round Palmerston's cook.
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Well, I knew she was mutton-headed, but this beat all, and so I told her.
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'That's because I stopped talking with that mutton-headed bobby, --
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I will not attempt a justification of the position of the mutton-headed Professor on the subject of the Presidency; far be it from me.
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It is no goody-goody talk of a mutton-headed old deacon that he is giving you; it has taken him a year to get his courage up to speak to you, and every word that he speaks is boiled out of an agony of bitter memories.
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In fact, if you tried to talk about sex to young Ransome (and Mercier did try) he would denounce it as "silly goat's talk," and your absorption in it as "the most mutton-headed form of Flabbiness yet out."
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