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PILLOCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pillock mean?
• PILLOCK (noun)
The noun PILLOCK has 1 sense:
1. a person who is not very bright
Familiarity information: PILLOCK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is not very bright
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person
Context example:
The economy, stupid!
Hypernyms ("pillock" is a kind of...):
simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pillock"):
berk (a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of)
blockhead; bonehead; dumbass; dunce; dunderhead; fuckhead; hammerhead; knucklehead; loggerhead; lunkhead; muttonhead; numskull; shithead (a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence)
klutz ((Yiddish) a clumsy dolt)
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