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dinderhead

dinderhead is the southwestern English variant of dunderhead.

Meaning of dunderhead

Noun

dunderhead (plural dunderheads)

  1. (dated) A stupid person; a dunce.
    • You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses!1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “A Cub-pilot's Experience”, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC

Forms of dinderhead

pluraldinderheads

Questions about dinderhead

What is dinderhead the southwestern English variant of?
Dinderhead is the southwestern English variant of dunderhead.

Words near dinderhead in the dictionary

  1. DINB
  2. DINC
  3. dincha
  4. Dinckley
  5. DINCs
  6. dinderhead
  7. dinderheads
  8. Dindigul
  9. dindle
  10. dindled
  11. dindles

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