blunderhead
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of blunderhead
Example Sentences
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In spite of their blunderhead awkwardness, Authors Dreiser and Anderson have won life memberships in the U. S. literary Senate.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, a bigger blunderhead, excepting in regard to certain matters, of which this was not one, probably did not exist.
From Love at Paddington by Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett)
"What a blunderhead I am!" cries the Colonel, with delight on his countenance, spite of his professed repentance.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
The mildest is represented by the winged idiot that John Burroughs' little boy called a "blunderhead."
From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry
What do you suppose I cared whether I waked you or not, you blunderhead.
From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Optic, Oliver
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