buffle-headed

English

Adjective

buffle-headed (comparative more buffle-headed, superlative most buffle-headed)

  1. (obsolete) Having a large head, like a buffalo's.
  2. (obsolete) dull; stupid; blundering
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid
    • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot:
      So fell this buffle-headed Gyant by the hand of Don Quixot
    • 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:
      A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.
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