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Jobbernowl

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person's head, particularly if misshapen or blocky.

    "[She...] bathed his jobbernowl thrice in the fountain; then threw a handful of meal on his phiz …"

  2. 2
    A stupid person; a blockhead

    "“And a noodle and a jolt-head; you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a block-headed numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter!” I shrieked the last epithet."

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], compare French jobard (“gullible, crazy”) and English noll (“head”).

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