dinderhead

English

Noun

dinderhead (plural dinderheads)

  1. (dialect) Southwestern English variant of dunderhead, a blockhead.
    • 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By a Devonshire Man‎:
      Lawks, doant be clummed by Babbin Enapp,
      'Sa bibbling, boostering, brinded chap,
      A dinderhead hadge-boar!
    • 1971, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society‎, The Society:
      Being only a dim gentile I could not see the slightest connection between fish and guns, until, by now getting quite angry at my stupidity she roared in my ear "game-kipper (keeper), game-kipper, y'er dinderhead."
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