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Webster 1913 Edition

Blockhead

Block′headˊ

,

Noun.

[

Block

+

head

.]

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

The bookful

blockhead

, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Pope.

Webster 1828 Edition

Blockhead

BLOCK'HEAD

,

Noun.

[block and head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Definition 2024

blockhead

blockhead

English

Alternative forms

block head, block-head

Noun

blockhead ‎(plural blockheads)

(colloquial) A stupid person.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:
  So I think, blockheads, said Manfred: what is it has scared you thus?

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:idiot

Derived terms

Translations

stupid person

Armenian: տխմար (hy) ‎(txmar), դանդալոշ (hy) ‎(dandaloš)
Bulgarian: глупак (bg) m ‎(glupák)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傻子 (zh) ‎(shǎzi), 傻瓜 (zh) ‎(shǎguā)
Danish: dosmer c
Dutch: stomkop (nl) m, f, domkop (nl) m, f
Finnish: pölkkypää (fi), puupää (fi), läskipää (fi)
French: imbécile (fr), cancre (fr) m, f
German: Dummkopf (de) m
Irish: blocán m, ceann cipín m, ceann maide m, ceann máilléid m, cloigeann maide m, dundarlán m, lúmaire m
Italian: imbecille (it) m, idiota (it) m
Japanese: 木偶の坊 ‎(でくのぼう, dekunobō), 薄鈍 ‎(うすのろ, usunoro), 鈍間 ‎(のろま, noroma)

Korean: 바보 (ko) ‎(babo)
Kyrgyz: акмак (ky) ‎(akmak), келесоо (ky) ‎(kelesoo)
Latin: caudex, gurdus m
Maori: moho
Polish: przygłup m, dureń (pl) m
Portuguese: idiota (pt) m, f
Russian: тупи́ца (ru) m, f ‎(tupíca), болва́н (ru) m ‎(bolván), бе́столочь (ru) f ‎(béstoločʹ), дура́к (ru) m ‎(durák), о́лух (ru) m ‎(ólux)
Scottish Gaelic: amadan m, burraidh m
Spanish: idiota (es) m, f
Swedish: träskalle (sv) (woodhead), dumhuvud (sv) n
Turkish: ahmak (tr), aptal (tr), gerzek (tr), hıyarağası, mankafa (tr)