chucklehead
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of chucklehead
Example Sentences
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And don’t be surprised if I think you’re a blathering chucklehead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
In “Step Brothers,” he played a yuppie chucklehead, but the roles in “Party Down” and “Parks and Recreation” felt more personal.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., called Pruitt’s behavior stupid and “juvenile” and urged him to “stop acting like a chucklehead, stop the unforced errors, stop leading with your chin.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2018
There it was, deployed not as a chucklehead pundit’s lazy reference to an angry-old-man type — but in a vivid, dramatic personification of an actual angry old man.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2015
At that moment, placid Nellie McKaye could have shrieked with fury; it would have been a relief to her if she could have stuck her hatpin in that monumental chucklehead, Daney.
From Kindred of the Dust by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
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