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dunderhead

English

Etymology

dunder +? head

Noun

dunderhead (plural dunderheads)

  1. (somewhat dated) A stupid person; a dunce.
    • 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ch. 6:
      You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses!
    • 1915, Basil King, The Side Of The Angels, ch. 3:
      Poor old fellow's a dunderhead. That's where it is in a nutshell. Never could make a living. . . . Nice old chap as ever lived. Only impractical, dreamy. Gentle as a sheep—and no more capable of running that big, expensive plant than a motherly old ewe.
    • 2004 May 23, Maureen Dowd, "Bay of Goats," New York Times (retrieved 29 Nov 2017):
      Cheney & Company swooned over Mr. Chalabi because he was telling them what they wanted to hear. . . . A half-dozen dunderheads who thought they knew everything assumed they could control Mr. Chalabi and use him as the instrument of their utopian fantasies.

Alternative forms

  • dinderhead (Southwestern England)

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:fool

Derived terms

  • dunderheaded

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galah

English

Etymology

From Gamilaraay gilaa.

  • (fool): From the bird. A connection with Malay gila (mad) has been suggested, but this explanation has not gained acceptance.

Pronunciation

Noun

galah (plural galahs)

  1. A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 434:
      There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah.
    • 2005, David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology, page 175,
      The Galah has benefited from changes in the environment brought about by human activities (Rowley, 1990; Saunders and Ingram, 1995; Forshaw, 2002). The Galah?s diet is predominantly seeds, especially those from cereal crops and agricultural weeds.
  2. (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
    That galah nearly drove me off the road.
    • 1991, Patricia Shaw, River of the Sun, unnumbered page,
      ‘Don?t just stand there, you great galah, lend a hand here!’ Billy Kemp shoved Edmund towards the longboat. ‘Get it free. The lads are bringing up the casks.’
    • 1999, Bryce Courtenay, Solomon's Song, unnumbered page,
      ‘But, Sergeant, I reckon a man would look a proper galah falling about with an empty rifle, going click, click, click, “bang you?re dead” when he wasn?t doing rifle drill on parade, like when it?s not official, know what I mean?’ one of the infantrymen volunteers.
    • 2006, John Chalmers, The Professional Guest, page 13,
      [] Then you will strut around like a great galah tryin? to impress the sheilas about what a fuckin? big iron ore miner you are.’

Synonyms

  • (fool): drongo

Derived terms

  • galah session

Translations

See also

  • cockatiel
  • cockatoo
  • corella

References


Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?alah/
  • Rhymes: -alah, -lah, -ah

Noun

galah (Jawi spelling ?????, plural galah-galah, informal 1st possessive galahku, impolite 2nd possessive galahmu, 3rd possessive galahnya)

  1. pole, stake

Further reading

  • “galah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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