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blockhead
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]
With loads of learned lumber in his head." [1913 Webster]
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, yokelROGET 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.For further exploring for "blockhead" in Webster Dictionary Online