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fatheaded

American  
[fat-hed-id] / ˈfætˌhɛd ɪd /

adjective

  1. foolish; fatuous; witless.


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Etymology

Origin of fatheaded

1500–10, for literal sense; fathead + -ed 3

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This will sound fatheaded, but I wish Joe Biden would read my 2016 novel “The Mandibles,” and I hope I’d say that even if it had been written by someone else.

From New York Times May 27, 2021

Big Bertha was the nickname for a World War I German howitzer but also a fatheaded golf club.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2016

That parable is properly applicable to the sin of business covetousness and that kind of fatheaded satisfaction with things as they are.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would be wonderful, said Hecht, if Charlie's attitude "was the attitude of the young world toward its fatheaded, sham-filled adults."

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, I know some of those fatheaded Brotherhood economists call our system economic slavery—and I'll admit that it's pretty hard to crack out of a spherical trust.

From The Lani People by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)

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