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fathead
English
Etymology
fat +? head
Noun
fathead (plural fatheads)
- (derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
- A cyprinid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
- A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.
- A blobfish, Psychrolutes microporos
- Any of several species of fish of the genus Cubiceps
Synonyms
- (derogatory): dunce, imbecile, lout, nincompoop, see also Thesaurus:idiot
Antonyms
- (derogatory): genius
Translations
fathead From the web:
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- what's fathead mean
- what do fathead minnows eat
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- what eats fathead minnows
dunderhead
English
Etymology
dunder +? head
Noun
dunderhead (plural dunderheads)
- (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.
- 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ch. 6:
Alternative forms
- dinderhead (Southwestern England)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:fool
Derived terms
- dunderheaded
dunderhead From the web:
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- what does dunderhead mean in britain
- what does dunderhead
- what does dunderheadedness mean
- what does dunderhead mean in slang
- what is a dunderhead in spanish
- what language is dunderhead
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