loggerheaded

adj

loggerheaded

adj
1

dull; stupid

  • Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! / You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  • a great loggerheaded booby1653-1693, Thomas Urquhart, The Works of Rabelais:
Derived terms
loggerheaded duck

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