fathead
noun/ˈfæt.hɛd/
Etymology From fat + head.
1
Derogatory An idiot; a fool.
- You fathead! You forgot to put the milk in the fridge and now it's spoiled!
- ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:
2
A cyprinid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
3
A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.
4
A blobfish, Psychrolutes microporos
5
Any of several species of fish of the genus Cubiceps
- Synonyms
- dunce, imbecile, lout, nincompoop
- Antonyms
- genius
- Derived terms
- fathead minnow