blunderhead

[bluhn-der-hed]

noun

1. Informal.,  a blunderer; nincompoop.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blunderhead¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; blunder + head

Example Sentences

Blunderhead was undoubtedly right in this observation, as perhaps not one watering place can boast medical men of equal ability and liberality, affording so striking a contrast with those "condemn'd to endless fame," by the memoirs of his celebrated uncle.

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I hope you'll excuse this long fabling digression, As a thing very common in bards by profession, And to tell you the truth having been somewhat bit, I find I have gain'd a new edge to my wit, Yes! thanks to O'Baffin, his friendship's unriddled, And her Ladyship's simper, with "Blunderhead's diddled."

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In spite of their blunderhead awkwardness, Authors Dreiser and Anderson have won life memberships in the U. S. literary Senate.

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Dear Sir:—I boarded, this morning, off Cape Cod, the Blunderhead, from Carthagena, and have a week's later papers.

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“What, the Duke of Blunderhead?” cried he.

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