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dunderheads

dunderheads is the plural 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

Questions about dunderheads

What is dunderheads the plural of?
Dunderheads is the plural of dunderhead.

Words near dunderheads in the dictionary

  1. dunderfunk
  2. dunderhead
  3. dunderheaded
  4. dunderheadedness
  5. dunderheadism
  6. dunderheads
  7. Dunderland
  8. dunderpate
  9. dunderpated
  10. dunderpates
  11. dunders

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