lunkhead

[luhngk-hed]

noun

Slang.

1. a dull or stupid person; blockhead.

Other Word Forms

• lunkheaded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of lunkhead¹

1850–55, lunk (perhaps blend of lump ¹ and hunk ) + head

Example Sentences

There are many scenes in which Ritchson’s wandering knight succinctly spells out to some lunkhead he’s just broken how he broke them – that is, if they don’t die outright.

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Fascism was supposed to bring them their Hallmark movie, to make the prodigal liberal daughter give up her career to marry the pickup-driving lunkhead next door.

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For a performer who confessed that he thinks in show tunes, he certainly knows how to bewitch an audience with musical theater classics retooled to put lunkhead politicians with malicious agendas in their place.

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Babbitt was a victim of the rabbit hole, he says — and her husband, Aaron, was an apolitical “lunkhead” before grief fueled his evolution into “a very sad character” co-opted by the extreme right wing.

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“About time one of you lunkheads remembered we were in there,” grumbled Scruffy.

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