different between dope vs blockhead
dope
English
Etymology
From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *d?pen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijan?.
Sense “narcotic drug” originally from viscous opium pastes, “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Related to English dip and German taufen.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [d??p]
- (US) IPA(key): [do?p]
- Rhymes: -??p
Noun
dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)
- (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
- (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
- (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin. [from late 19th c.]
- (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]
- Synonym: scoop
- (uncountable, fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
- (countable, slang) A stupid person.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
- (US, Ohio) Dessert topping.
Derived terms
- dope fiend
- dope house
- dope man
- dope sheet
- dope slap/dope-slap
- dope story
- dopeless
Translations
Verb
dope (third-person singular simple present dopes, present participle doping, simple past and past participle doped)
- (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.
- Synonym: administer
- (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
- (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
- (intransitive, now chiefly sports) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
- (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
Derived terms
- dope up
Descendants
Translations
Adjective
dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)
- (slang) Amazing.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:awesome
Translations
References
Anagrams
- deop, depo, op-ed, oped, p.o.'ed, p.o.ed, pedo, pedo-, pode, poed
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [do?p?]
Verb
dope
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dopen
French
Etymology
From English dope
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?p/
Noun
dope f (plural dopes)
- (informal) illicit drug, narcotic
Verb
dope
- first-person singular present indicative of doper
- third-person singular present indicative of doper
- first-person singular present subjunctive of doper
- third-person singular present subjunctive of doper
- second-person singular imperative of doper
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?do?.p?]
Verb
dope
- inflection of dopen:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Ido
Etymology
From dop +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?do.pe/
Adverb
dope
- back, behind, aback
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dope/, [?d?o.pe]
Verb
dope
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dopar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dopar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dopar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dopar.
dope From the web:
- what dopest means
- what dope means in spanish
- what dopey means
- what do peacocks eat
- what does
- what does wap mean
- what does simp mean
- what does sus mean
blockhead
English
Alternative forms
- block head, block-head
Etymology
1549, block (“n.”) +? head.
Pronunciation
Noun
blockhead (plural blockheads)
- (colloquial) A stupid person.
- A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:idiot
Derived terms
- blockheaded
- blockheadess
Translations
Verb
blockhead (third-person singular simple present blockheads, present participle blockheading, simple past and past participle blockheaded)
- To perform as a human blockhead.
- (rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
Anagrams
- headblock
blockhead From the web:
- what blockhead cooked all this
- blockhead meaning
- blockheads what do dodos eat
- blockhead what the dictionary do
- blockheads what is expert mode
- blockheads what happens when you die
- blockheads what a waste
- blockhead what does it mean
you may also like
- dope vs blockhead
- debilitation vs inadequacy
- impel vs arouse
- direction vs appeal
- submissive vs yielding
- amazing vs fearsome
- attentively vs intently
- records vs returns
- striking vs tantalising
- commotion vs ado
- circumvent vs fool
- assert vs charge
- melodramatic vs stagey
- accumulation vs host
- station vs garrison
- utter vs obvious
- colourful vs beautiful
- deluge vs surfeit
- appalling vs low
- specify vs relate