featherhead
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It’s one of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memoirs in the first place, back before every featherhead in your writers’ group was trying to peddle one.
From New York Times • May 13, 2013
I fear she doesn't treat them too considerately, the poor little featherhead.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
You are a puppy, you are a featherhead, you are not one to give advice, so there—you mind your own business, sir.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
"I heard nothing"— "Of course!—and that was enough to make you think I was nothing but a featherhead!"
From Diana by Warner, Susan
The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by James, Henry
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