chuckleheaded

English

Etymology

chuckle + headed

Adjective

chuckleheaded (comparative more chuckleheaded, superlative most chuckleheaded)

  1. stupid, idiotic
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid
    • 2008 April 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Novelist’s Crash Course on Terror”, in New York Times:
      In one of these chuckleheaded essays about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Martin Amis complains about the use of the shorthand 9/11: “My principal objection to the numbers is that they are numbers,” he writes in “The Second Plane.”
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