turnip-headed
adj1
Dated, Derogatory, Slang Stupid; foolish.
- This consequential pigmy is in fact a perfect curiosity of the human species, and was doubtless intended by nature to occupy a niche in the gallery of the Australian Pickwick. Risen from the bench of the mechanic this turnip-headed moon-calf has the overweening presumption to aspire to the bench of magistracy!1840 January 18, The Colonist, Sydney, page 2, column 5:
- [H]e called Bill a turnip-headed old carrot-cruncher, and other insulting names.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 130: