wooden-headed
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of wooden-headed
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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In The Vertical Smile he mocks a handsome and vacuous presidential hopeful, Duncan Mulligan, who must be the crookedest, most wooden-headed and hypocritical Wall Street lawyer not actually in jail.
From Time Magazine Archive
There’s an antique child’s rocking horse in the window, a threadbare quilt, a wooden-headed doll with a battered face.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
“Other than the fact that they’re not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
I don’t want that wooden-headed Mrs. Perkenpine to cook for me.”
From The Associate Hermits by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
All these things, in the words of the catechism, "I steadfastly believe," until I become a mere driveller, a moonstruck, babbling, staring, credulous, imbecile, greedy, gaping, wooden-headed, addle-brained, wool-gathering, dreary, vacant, obstinate civilian.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth
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