saphead

[ sap-hed ]

noun

, Slang.

1. a simpleton; fool.

saphead

¹

/ ˈsæpˌhɛd /

noun

1. slang.
   a simpleton, idiot, or fool

saphead

²

/ ˈsæpˌhɛd /

noun

1. military the end of a sap nearest to the enemy

Derived Forms

• ˈsapˌheaded, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of saphead¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; sap ¹ + head

Example Sentences

A feller that kin kick like that didn't orter be called Sapwood nor Saphead nor Sapanything.

From Project Gutenberg

The latter called their enemies "muckers," and these retorted with the term "saphead."

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I bet I know what that saphead of an editor had to say without reading his letter.

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He's older and he goes with the swiftest bunch in town, and, like a regular saphead, I was flattered.

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He doesn't fancy Captain Billy Morgan, thinks him rather a saphead.

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