blunderhead

English

Etymology

blunder + -head

Noun

blunderhead (plural blunderheads)

  1. Someone who habitually makes mistakes or blunders
    • 1871, Oliver Optic, Desk and Debit:
      "What do you suppose I cared whether I waked you or not, you blunderhead.
    • 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
      At the rate of this thick-skulled blunderhead, every plow-jobber shall take upon him to read upon divinity."

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