oxhead

noun

oxhead

noun

Etymology From Middle English oxe head, oxheved, equivalent to ox + head. Compare hogshead.

1

Obsolete A fool; a blockhead.

  • Dost make a mummer of me, oxe-head?1608, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess:

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