muddlehead
nounEtymology From muddle + head.
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Colloquial A stupid person.
- The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events:
- A reactionary muddlehead who waves the feminist banner does not thereby cease to be a reactionary muddlehead.1978 April 1, John Lauritsen, “Praising Mitzel”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
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