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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

Yet for all the angry talk of flint-hearted, fatheaded bosses, there is a big difference in Company Man that is symptomatic of the spate of new novels rediscovering the American business scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the book's end, Twining returns, reduces the fatheaded opposition to its proper pinheaded proportions, and weary of it all, retires in favor of Wren.

From Time Magazine Archive

To call your Sovereign a fatheaded slob in a newsfac might be considered bad taste, but it isn't illegal.

From The Unnecessary Man by Martinez

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