"featherhead" meaning in All languages combined

See featherhead on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: featherheads [plural]
Etymology: From feather + head. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|feather|head}} feather + head Head templates: {{en-noun}} featherhead (plural featherheads)
  1. A foolish person.
    Sense id: en-featherhead-en-noun-gQN140CO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:",
          "text": "He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?",
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      "glosses": [
        "A foolish person."
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