beetle-headed

adj

beetle-headed

adj

1

Obsolete Mentally dull; stupid.

A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear’d knave!c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

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