blunderhead

American  

[bluhn-der-hed] / ˈblʌn dərˌhɛd /

noun

1. Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.

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Etymology

Origin of blunderhead

First recorded in 1690–1700; blunder + head

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Example Sentences

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blunderhead

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Henry Van Dyke

"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 William Makepeace Thackeray

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 W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge

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 Oliver Optic

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