thickhead
Americannoun
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a stupid person; blockhead.
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Also called whistler. any of several Old World birds of the genus Pachycephala, chiefly of various islands in the Pacific Ocean, related to the flycatchers, and having a melodious whistling call.
noun
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a stupid or ignorant person; fool
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Also called: whistler. any of various Australian and SE Asian songbirds of the family Muscicapidae (flycatchers, etc)
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And look here, Carruthers, don't think I'm playing the silly thickhead, and trying to mystify you.
From The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
You don’t suppose that thickhead would have the gumption to do what this chap did, or the wit to know about paper being a non-conductor, and all that?
From Under Boy Scout Colors by Joseph Bushnell Ames
I war a thickhead too never to have thought of it.
From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
I don't like you to look upon your father as a thickhead who couldn't be expected to succeed.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
“There’s some hope for a thickhead, but there isn’t any for you.”
From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Frank Gee Patchin
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