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BONEHEAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bonehead mean?
• BONEHEAD (noun)
The noun BONEHEAD has 1 sense:
1. a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Familiarity information: BONEHEAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("bonehead" 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:
boneheaded ((used informally) stupid)
Context examples
James was a bonehead—I give you that.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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