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Cittern-head

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Noun
  1. 1
    A blockhead; a dunce. obsolete

    "Shall brainless cittern-heads, each jobbernoul, / Pocket the very genius of thy soul?"

Etymology

So called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.

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