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muddlehead

muddlehead noun: a stupid person.

Noun

muddlehead (plural muddleheads)

  1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
    • The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events
    • A reactionary muddlehead who waves the feminist banner does not thereby cease to be a reactionary muddlehead.1978 April 1, John Lauritsen, “Praising Mitzel”, in Gay Community News, page 4

Forms of muddlehead

pluralmuddleheads

Origin of muddlehead

From muddle + head.

Questions about muddlehead

What does muddlehead mean?
Muddlehead means a stupid person.
What part of speech is muddlehead?
Muddlehead is a noun.
What is the plural of muddlehead?
The plural of muddlehead is muddleheads.

Words near muddlehead in the dictionary

  1. muddled the waters
  2. muddled through
  3. muddled up
  4. muddledness
  5. muddledom
  6. muddlehead
  7. muddleheaded
  8. muddleheadedly
  9. muddleheadedness
  10. muddleheads
  11. muddlement

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