turnip-headed in English

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          "ref": "1840 January 18, The Colonist, Sydney, page 2, column 5:",
          "text": "This consequential pigmy is in fact a perfect curiosity of the human species, and was doubtless intended by nature to occupy a niche in the gallery of the Australian Pickwick. Risen from the bench of the mechanic this turnip-headed moon-calf has the overweening presumption to aspire to the bench of magistracy!",
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          "ref": "1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 130:",
          "text": "[H]e called Bill a turnip-headed old carrot-cruncher, and other insulting names.",
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        "Stupid; foolish."
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        "(slang, derogatory, dated) Stupid; foolish."
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    {
      "form": "more turnip-headed",
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    {
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          "ref": "1840 January 18, The Colonist, Sydney, page 2, column 5:",
          "text": "This consequential pigmy is in fact a perfect curiosity of the human species, and was doubtless intended by nature to occupy a niche in the gallery of the Australian Pickwick. Risen from the bench of the mechanic this turnip-headed moon-calf has the overweening presumption to aspire to the bench of magistracy!",
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          "ref": "1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 130:",
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        "Stupid; foolish."
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"turnip-headed" meaning in English

Adjective