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knucklehead

[ nuhk-uhl-hed ]

noun

, Informal.
  1. a stupid, bumbling, inept person.


knucklehead

/ ˈnʌkəlˌhɛd /

noun

  1. informal.
    fool; idiot
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈknuckleˌheaded, adjective
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Other Words From

  • knuckle·headed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of knucklehead1

First recorded in 1940–45; knuckle + head
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Example Sentences

"I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word."

From BBC

I then watched the knucklehead plow into a wall on the shoulder, bolt from the car, run through traffic and leap over the center divider.

“I’m a knucklehead sometimes,” he said as he stumbled to explain his claim to being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre.

From Salon

That was a lucky break for Walz, who bumbled his way through an explanation of the China discrepancy, pleading that he is a “knucklehead” who gets “caught up in the rhetoric.”

“I understand international, dangerous people, and with all due respect to Mr. Rundo, he was a knucklehead who was misguided,” Carney said on Tuesday.

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