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fatheaded

American  
[fat-hed-id] / ˈfætˌhɛd ɪd /

adjective

  1. foolish; fatuous; witless.


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Etymology

Origin of fatheaded

1500–10, for literal sense; fathead + -ed 3


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This will sound fatheaded, but I wish Joe Biden would read my 2016 novel “The Mandibles,” and I hope I’d say that even if it had been written by someone else.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2021

Big Bertha was the nickname for a World War I German howitzer but also a fatheaded golf club.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2016

The catalogue, which was evidently compiled by Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, accused Khrushchev of 29 sins, immoral, illegal, or fatheaded.

From Time Magazine Archive

But certain other facts were inescapable: there were men in high places, charged with the defense of the republic, who had erred; there were others who had been completely and unaccountably fatheaded.

From Time Magazine Archive

To call your Sovereign a fatheaded slob in a newsfac might be considered bad taste, but it isn't illegal.

From The Unnecessary Man by Martinez

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