numbskulled
adjEtymology From numb + skulled.
1
Informal stupid.
- He opens his mouth to scold her, to let her know that itʼs precisely her numbskulled inability to understand thereʼs more to the world than plum-cake and cocoa thatʼs allowed this calamity to happen in the first place.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 820:
- Derived terms
- numbskulledness