doodlehead
doodlehead noun: term of abuse.
Noun
doodlehead (plural doodleheads)
- Term of abuse.
- Have you labeled your edited master so some joker doesn’t come around tomorrow morning and record a Bugs Bunny cartoon over your precious program? The world is filled with doodleheads who think that any program which isn’t theirs is expendable. Label that tape! Put it in a safe place from...1990, Peter Utz, “Editing a Videotape”, in Create Excellent Video, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, section “When You’re Finished Editing”, page 369
- ‘Listen, doodlehead, if I hear you mention Hon Rosie one more time…’1991, Brian Jacques, Mariel of Redwall, Red Fox, published 1992, →ISBN, page 126
Examples of doodlehead in a sentence
- The world is filled with doodleheads who think that any program which isn’t theirs is expendable.1990, Peter Utz, “Editing a Videotape”, in Create Excellent Video, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, section “When You’re...
- She rested it on the seat in front where some doodlehead had burned two holes with a cigarette.1994, Tim Winton, The Riders, Picador, published 1995, →ISBN, page 322:
Forms of doodlehead
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Origin of doodlehead
From doodle + head.
Questions about doodlehead
- What does doodlehead mean?
- Doodlehead means term of abuse.
- How do you use doodlehead in a sentence?
- The world is filled with doodleheads who think that any program which isn’t theirs is expendable.
- What part of speech is doodlehead?
- Doodlehead is a noun.
- What is the plural of doodlehead?
- The plural of doodlehead is doodleheads.
Words near doodlehead in the dictionary
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