blockhead

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: block=head

CIDE DICTIONARY

blockhead, n. [Block + head.].

 A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.  [1913 Webster]
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

blockhead, n. a stupid person.

Derivative

blockheaded adj.

THESAURUS

blockhead

addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, blubberhead, blunderer, blunderhead, bonehead, boor, botcher, bufflehead, bumbler, bungler, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clod, clodhead, clodhopper, clodknocker, clodpate, clodpoll, clot, clown, dimwit, dolt, dolthead, dullhead, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummy, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, fumbler, gawk, gowk, jolterhead, jughead, klutz, knucklehead, looby, lout, lubber, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, nitwit, noodlehead, numskull, oaf, ox, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, slouch, slubberer, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyhead, yokel

ROGET THESAURUS

blockhead

Fool

N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.