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blockhead|ˈblɒkhɛd|
[f. block n. + head.]
†1. A wooden head, a wooden block for hats or wigs; hence, a head with no more intelligence in it than one of these, a blockish head. Obs. (This would now be written block head or block-head.)
1549[implied in blockheaded]. 1589Hay any Work B, The ofspringes of your owne blockheads. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. iii. 31 Your wit..'tis strongly wadg'd vp in a blocke⁓head. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 217 To maintain their own Hypotheses, Broke one another's Blockheads, and the Peace. 1698Vanbrugh Prov. Wife v. v, How long would my blockhead have been a-producing this!
2. Hence, One whose head is blockish or ‘wooden’; an utterly stupid fellow.
1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. xi. 14 A blockheade that hathe loste the judgemente of nature. 1593Nashe Christs T. 69 b, Bee he the veriest block-head vnder heauen. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xxiv. 59 Block-heads and dull-pated Asses. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 307 ⁋12 Being dismissed as an hopeless Block-head. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 222 He might think me a blockhead, and refuse to take me.
†B. adj. Blockheaded, stupid. Obs.
1606in Bullen O. Pl. (1884) III. 32 The block-head heart of a woman. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. iv. 239 Oh! the Block-head World we live in! 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 2 All such Blockhead fools.
Hence ˈblockheadess. nonce-wd. [see -ess.] A female blockhead.
1827Lady Morgan O'Briens & O'Fl. IV. 361 All the blockheads and blockheadesses think themselves printable. |
