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Blockhead

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A stupid person. colloquial

    "[S]o I think, blockheads, ſaid Manfred; what is it has ſcared you thus?"

  2. 2
    A fan of the American boy band New Kids on the Block. slang

    "McCartneymania seemed to be a chance for the parents of Blockheads, the kids who swarmed the New Kids on the Block last week, to do a little gawking of their own."

  3. 3
    a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence wordnet
  4. 4
    Short for human blockhead abbreviation, alt-of

    "Waldo was sent that from an elderly blockhead named Fuzzy in Gibtown, Florida. That's the town to which most freaks retire."

Verb
  1. 1
    To perform as a human blockhead.

    "Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating."

  2. 2
    To behave in a stupid manner. rare

    "Two years' blockading made fair Malta ours: A noble struggle! -- yet 't is thought (at Rading) That Britain's island shews superior pow'rs, To bear, and to survive, two years blockheading !"

Etymology

Etymology 1

1532, block (noun) + -head.

Etymology 2

1532, block (noun) + -head.

Etymology 3

From block + -head.

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