"block-head" meaning in All languages combined

See block-head on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: block-heads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} block-head (plural block-heads)
  1. Alternative form of blockhead Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: blockhead Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-block-head-en-noun-BOfs9YVc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1835, Jacob Abbott, New England and her institutions, page 226:",
          "text": "Old Boreas, the king of the winds, will order out a snow-storm by and bye to block up the roads, so that none but booted and weatherproof boys can get to school, and you, Miss, must lose a day or two, and then find yourself at the foot, with those block-head boys who always abide there.",
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        {
          "ref": "1872, R.B. Forbes, Life-Boats, Projectiles And Other Means For Saving Life, →ISBN, page 113:",
          "text": "A classification of the block is necessary, yet that does not always, if generally, regulate the premium; the classification of the block-head who is to command is not suificiently taken into account!",
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          "ref": "2006, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, →ISBN, page 94:",
          "text": "He resolved “never again to think of marrying; and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with any one who would be block-head enough to have me.\"",
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