muddlehead

English

Etymology

muddle +‎ head

Noun

muddlehead (plural muddleheads)

(colloquial) A stupid person.
- 1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events:
  The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe
- 1978 April 1, John Lauritsen, “Praising Mitzel”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
  A reactionary muddlehead who waves the feminist banner does not thereby cease to be a reactionary muddlehead.

Related terms

muddleheaded

References

“muddlehead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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