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cockbrained

cockbrained adjective: foolish; lacking in common sense and good judgement.

Adjective

cockbrained (comparative more cockbrained, superlative most cockbrained)

  1. (archaic, derogatory) Foolish; lacking in common sense and good judgement.
    • His instances out of the common law are all so quite beside the matter which he would prove, as may be a warning to all clients how they venture their business with such a cockbrained solicitor.1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC
    • Woods is a douche, but he just rips off Winnie Gekko, who is the lamest character in the movie. Not to mention that the money Woods stole from Winnie Gekko wasn't even hers, it was dirty Gordon Gekko money, and if he hadn't stolen it, it was only going to end up down the toilet invested in "young...2010 September 24, Courtney Comstock, “The Villain In Wall Street 2 Is So Much Like Goldman Sachs It's Ridiculous”, in Business Insider

Synonyms of cockbrained

Forms of cockbrained

comparativemore cockbrained
superlativemost cockbrained
alternative formcock-brained

Origin of cockbrained

From cock + brained.

Questions about cockbrained

What does cockbrained mean?
Cockbrained means foolish; lacking in common sense and good judgement.
What part of speech is cockbrained?
Cockbrained is an adjective.

Words near cockbrained in the dictionary

  1. cockblocking
  2. cockblocks
  3. cockboat
  4. cockboats
  5. cockbrain
  6. cockbrained
  7. cockbrains
  8. cockbreath
  9. cockbulge
  10. cockbulges
  11. Cockburn

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