featherhead

American  

[feth-er-hed] / ˈfɛð ərˌhɛd /

noun

1. featherbrain.

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Other Word Forms

• featherheaded adjective

Etymology

Origin of featherhead

First recorded in 1825–35; feather + head

Example Sentences

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

Show the dullest clodpole, show the haughtiest featherhead, that a soul higher than himself is actually here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship.’

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

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 fear she doesn't treat them too considerately, the poor little featherhead.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

You have sense and discretion above your years, and are no featherhead like Bertrand here.

From A Heroine of France by Everett-Green, Evelyn