See blockhead in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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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:",
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"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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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "buccō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stīpes"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dräibiz"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tapčo",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "тапчо"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stupid person",
"word": "moho"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "toy",
"sense": "stupid person",
"word": "طوی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przygłup"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dureń"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tępak"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zakuty łeb"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bałwan"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bałwanica"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bęcwał"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "idiota"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tupíca",
"sense": "stupid person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"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"
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{
"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"
}
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"ref": "2007, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America, →ISBN:",
"text": "Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating.",
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"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 !",
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{
"ref": "1856, John Adams, The works of John Adams, second President of the United States, →ISBN:",
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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.",
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"To behave in a stupid manner."
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"(rare) To behave in a stupid manner."
],
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],
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}
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