muttonhead
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If pushed, I think I'd prefer Lewis to purchase Castle Howard and call the next volume of his autobiography Muttonhead Revisited.
From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2013
He should have been appointed Postmaster General; but that station belonged, by prescription, to the nobility—to some Lord Fitztoady or Earl Muttonhead, who could hardly tell a mail bag from a handsaw.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
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