BLOCKHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blockhead mean? 

• BLOCKHEAD (noun)
  The noun BLOCKHEAD has 1 sense:

1. a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

  Familiarity information: BLOCKHEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOCKHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blockhead; bonehead; dumbass; dunce; dunderhead; fuckhead; hammerhead; knucklehead; loggerhead; lunkhead; muttonhead; numskull; shithead

Hypernyms ("blockhead" is a kind of...):

dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person (a person who is not very bright)

Derivation:

blockheaded ((used informally) stupid)

 Context examples 

The elder brother smiled when he heard that, and thought to himself: Goodness, what a blockhead that brother of mine is!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Cease that chatter, blockhead! and do my bidding.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Do you dare to suppose me so great a blockhead, as not to know what a man is talking of? What do you deserve?”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You need not fear me; I have almost given up every serious idea of her; but I must be a blockhead indeed, if, whatever befell me, I could think of your kindness and sympathy without the sincerest gratitude.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I mean to offer some kind of explanation, some kind of apology, for the past; to open my whole heart to you, and by convincing you, that though I have been always a blockhead, I have not been always a rascal, to obtain something like forgiveness from Ma—from your sister."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The man must be a blockhead who wanted more.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was not sure of the existence of one virtue in her nature: I had marked neither modesty, nor benevolence, nor candour, nor refinement in her mind or manners—and, I married her:—gross, grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead that I was!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I shall think you a great blockhead, Frank, if you bring the aunt without the niece.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)