blockheaded

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From block + headed.

"Do tell us about her; I've been so blockheaded I couldn't put two and two together, but I'm beginning to see daylight at last. — Flamsted quarries, Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
A murrain seize thee for a blockheaded booby, cried the angry seller of sheep; by the worthy vow of Our Lady of Charroux, the worst in this flock is four times better than those which the Coraxians in Tuditania, a country of Spain, used to sell for a gold talent each; and how much dost thou think, thou Hibernian fool, that a talent of gold was worth? — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed

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