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block-head

block-head is the alternative form of blockhead.

Meaning of blockhead

Noun

blockhead (plural blockheads)

  1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
    • [S]o I think, blockheads, ſaid Manfred; what is it has ſcared you thus?1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter I, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC...

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Forms of block-head

pluralblock-heads

Questions about block-head

What is block-head the alternative form of?
Block-head is the alternative form of blockhead.

Words near block-head in the dictionary

  1. block walls
  2. block-book
  3. block-booked
  4. block-booking
  5. block-books
  6. block-head
  7. block-heads
  8. block-holder
  9. block-holders
  10. block-like
  11. block-long

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