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feather-headed

feather-headed adjective: foolish or frivolous.

Adjective

feather-headed (comparative more feather-headed, superlative most feather-headed)

  1. (colloquial) foolish or frivolous
    • ... some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them,1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 54, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
    • “You may be a feather—headed imbecile but is it a crime to be a feather-headed imbecile? What could you have possibly done to deserve this?”2003, James C. Ferguson, Context Clues: A Basil Coventry Misadventure
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having feathers on one's head.

Forms of feather-headed

comparativemore feather-headed
superlativemost feather-headed

Questions about feather-headed

What does feather-headed mean?
Feather-headed means foolish or frivolous.
What part of speech is feather-headed?
Feather-headed is an adjective.

Words near feather-headed in the dictionary

  1. feather-dusted
  2. feather-dusting
  3. feather-dusts
  4. feather-grass
  5. feather-grasses
  6. feather-headed
  7. feather-heeled
  8. feather-legged bug
  9. feather-legged bugs
  10. feather-light
  11. feather-tailed glider

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