"blockhead" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: blockhead US.ogg [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-blockhead.wav [US] Forms: blockheads [plural]
Etymology: 1549, block (noun) + -head. Etymology templates: {{af|en|block|-head|pos1=noun}} block (noun) + -head Head templates: {{en-noun}} blockhead (plural blockheads)
  1. (colloquial) A stupid person. Tags: colloquial Translations (stupid person): στέλεχος (stélekhos) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), տխմար (txmar) (Armenian), դանդալոշ (dandaloš) (Armenian), глупа́к (glupák) [masculine] (Bulgarian), totxo [masculine] (Catalan), totxa [feminine] (Catalan), 豬頭丙 (Chinese Cantonese), 猪头丙 (zyu¹ tau⁴ bing²) (Chinese Cantonese), 傻子 (shǎzi) (Chinese Mandarin), 傻瓜 (shǎguā) (Chinese Mandarin), hlupák [masculine] (Czech), pitomec [masculine] (Czech), dosmer [common-gender] (Danish), stomkop [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), domkop [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), pölkkypää (Finnish), puupää (Finnish), läskipää (Finnish), imbécile (French), cancre [feminine, masculine] (French), Dummkopf [masculine] (German), बेवक़ूफ़ (bevqūf) [masculine] (Hindi), blocán [masculine] (Irish), ceann cipín [masculine] (Irish), ceann maide [masculine] (Irish), ceann máilléid [masculine] (Irish), cloigeann maide [masculine] (Irish), dundarlán [masculine] (Irish), lúmaire [masculine] (Irish), imbecille [masculine] (Italian), idiota [masculine] (Italian), testone [masculine] (Italian), 木偶の坊 (dekunobō) (alt: でくのぼう) (Japanese), 薄鈍 (usunoro) (alt: うすのろ) (Japanese), 鈍間 (noroma) (alt: のろま) (Japanese), 바보 (babo) (Korean), акмак (akmak) (Kyrgyz), келесоо (kelesoo) (Kyrgyz), blennus [masculine] (Latin), caudex [masculine] (Latin), gurdus [masculine] (Latin), buccō [masculine] (Latin), stīpes [masculine] (Latin), Dräibiz [masculine] (Luxembourgish), moho (Maori), przygłup [masculine] (Polish), dureń [masculine] (Polish), tępak [masculine] (Polish), zakuty łeb [masculine] (Polish), bałwan [masculine] (Polish), bałwanica [feminine] (Polish), bęcwał [masculine] (Polish), idiota [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), тупи́ца (tupíca) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), болва́н (bolván) [masculine] (Russian), бе́столочь (béstoločʹ) [feminine] (Russian), дура́к (durák) [masculine] (Russian), о́лух (ólux) [masculine] (Russian), दुर्मति (durmati) [masculine] (Sanskrit), amadan [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), burraidh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), hlupák [masculine] (Slovak), tupec [masculine] (Slovak), somár [masculine] (Slovak), idiota [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), träskalle (woodhead) (Swedish), dumhuvud [neuter] (Swedish), మొద్దు (moddu) (Telugu), ahmak (Turkish), aptal (Turkish), gerzek (Turkish), hıyarağası (Turkish), mankafa (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-blockhead-en-noun-NdWfaHUB Disambiguation of 'stupid person': 96 4
  2. A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead. Categories (topical): Circus, People
    Sense id: en-blockhead-en-noun-LbKQ3IRi Disambiguation of Circus: 3 54 32 11 Disambiguation of People: 0 63 37 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: block head, block-head Derived forms: blockheaded, blockheadess

Verb

Audio: blockhead US.ogg [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-blockhead.wav [US] Forms: blockheads [present, singular, third-person], blockheading [participle, present], blockheaded [participle, past], blockheaded [past]
Etymology: 1549, block (noun) + -head. Etymology templates: {{af|en|block|-head|pos1=noun}} block (noun) + -head Head templates: {{en-verb}} blockhead (third-person singular simple present blockheads, present participle blockheading, simple past and past participle blockheaded)
  1. To perform as a human blockhead.
    Sense id: en-blockhead-en-verb-RoLEDwoc
  2. (rare) To behave in a stupid manner. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-blockhead-en-verb-gDI8Il8q
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: block head, block-head

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1819, William Hazlitt, “A Letter to William Gifford, Esq.”, in A. R. Waller, Arnold Glover, editors, The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, volume 1, London: J. M. Dent & Co., published 1902, page 368",
          "text": "[…]like a conceited mechanic in a village ale-house, you would set down every one who differs from you as an ignorant blockhead[…]",
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          "ref": "1953, Charles Schulz, Peanuts",
          "text": "What a blockhead that Charlie Brown is!",
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          "ref": "2008, Philip Roth, Indignation",
          "text": "Not all of them, by no means anywhere close to all of them, just the most notable blockheads among them — three altogether, two freshmen and one sophomore, all of whom were among the first to be expelled the next day — masturbated into pairs of stolen panties[…]",
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "word": "豬頭丙"
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          "roman": "zyu¹ tau⁴ bing²",
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shǎzi",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "傻子"
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          "roman": "shǎguā",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "傻瓜"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "stupid person",
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          "word": "hlupák"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "stupid person",
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          "word": "pitomec"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "dosmer"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "stomkop"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
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          "word": "domkop"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "pölkkypää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "puupää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "läskipää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "imbécile"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cancre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Dummkopf"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "stélekhos",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "στέλεχος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "bevqūf",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "बेवक़ूफ़"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "blocán"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ceann cipín"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ceann maide"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ceann máilléid"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cloigeann maide"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dundarlán"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lúmaire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "imbecille"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "idiota"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "testone"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "alt": "でくのぼう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "dekunobō",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "木偶の坊"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "alt": "うすのろ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "usunoro",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "薄鈍"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "alt": "のろま",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "noroma",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "鈍間"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "babo",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "바보"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "akmak",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "акмак"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "kelesoo",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "келесоо"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "blennus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "caudex"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gurdus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "buccō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "stīpes"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Dräibiz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "moho"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "przygłup"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dureń"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tępak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zakuty łeb"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bałwan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bałwanica"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bęcwał"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "idiota"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tupíca",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "тупи́ца"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bolván",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "болва́н"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "béstoločʹ",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "бе́столочь"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "durák",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "дура́к"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ólux",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "о́лух"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "durmati",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "दुर्मति"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "amadan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "burraidh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hlupák"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tupec"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "somár"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "idiota"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "träskalle (woodhead)"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "dumhuvud"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "moddu",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "మొద్దు"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "ahmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "aptal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "gerzek"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "hıyarağası"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "stupid person",
          "word": "mankafa"
        }
      ]
    },
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тупи́ца"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bolván",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "болва́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "béstoločʹ",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бе́столочь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "durák",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дура́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ólux",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "о́лух"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "durmati",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "दुर्मति"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amadan"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "burraidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hlupák"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tupec"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "somár"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "idiota"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "word": "träskalle (woodhead)"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "dumhuvud"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "moddu",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "word": "మొద్దు"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "word": "ahmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "word": "aptal"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "word": "gerzek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "word": "hıyarağası"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "stupid person",
      "word": "mankafa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blockhead"
}

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    "en:People"
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "block",
        "3": "-head",
        "pos1": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "block (noun) + -head",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blockheads",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blockheading",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blockheaded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America",
          "text": "Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform as a human blockhead."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "human blockhead",
          "human blockhead"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1804, The Spirit of the Public Journals",
          "text": "Two years' blockading made fair Malta ours: A noble struggle! -- yet 't is thought (at Rading) That Britain's island shews superior pow'rs, To bear, and to survive, two years blockheading!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, John Adams, The works of John Adams, second President of the United States",
          "text": "I have blockheading and boxing enough at Master Lovell's, I won't have it repeated here; and in a great passion, I threw the Virgil at his head, hit him in the face, and bruised his lip, and ran away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, The Ethical Outlook: A Journal of the American Ethical Union",
          "text": "The operation of blockheading is much the same as that of beheading, which Charles I underwent. In both the head is severed from the body. The body goes around without benefit of head. The victim becomes a Headless Horseman, or that more common figure a Headless Pedestrian. In our day the operation is often done not on an executioner's block but on Paradise Avenue in Suburbia Manor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a stupid manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stupid",
          "stupid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To behave in a stupid manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Blockhead_US.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (U.S.A.)"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-blockhead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-blockhead.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "block head"
    },
    {
      "word": "block-head"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blockhead"
}

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