"dunderhead" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1915, Basil King, chapter 3, in The Side Of The Angels",
          "text": "Poor old fellow's a dunderhead. That's where it is in a nutshell. Never could make a living. […] Nice old chap as ever lived. Only impractical, dreamy. Gentle as a sheep—and no more capable of running that big, expensive plant than a motherly old ewe.",
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          "text": "Cheney & Company swooned over Mr. Chalabi because he was telling them what they wanted to hear. . . . A half-dozen dunderheads who thought they knew everything assumed they could control Mr. Chalabi and use him as the instrument of their utopian fantasies.",
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        "A stupid person; a dunce."
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        "(somewhat dated) A stupid person; a dunce."
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