dummkopf
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dummkopf
1800–10, < German, equivalent to dumm dumb + Kopf head
Example Sentences
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So thou must not fash thyself about the lad, du liebe dummkopf, for he will come right very speedily.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
I’m glad of it, boy, because I don’t want what the Germans call a dummkopf to help me.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville
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