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pumpkin-headed

pumpkin-headed adjective: stupid; foolish; fatheaded.

Adjective

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

  1. (dated, derogatory, slang) Stupid; foolish; fatheaded.
    • The parties made no reply, but were going forward, when the prisoner again called out, at the same time rushing from his house with a gun in his hand, exclaiming “you pumpkin headed b----, if you do not stop and tell me who you are, I'll blow your brains out,” at the same moment pulling the...1827 May 11, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 3, column 1
    • “Take that, for being a pumpkin-headed old shellback.”1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 161

Forms of pumpkin-headed

comparativemore pumpkin-headed
superlativemost pumpkin-headed

Questions about pumpkin-headed

What does pumpkin-headed mean?
Pumpkin-headed means stupid; foolish; fatheaded.
What part of speech is pumpkin-headed?
Pumpkin-headed is an adjective.

Words near pumpkin-headed in the dictionary

  1. pumpkin spider
  2. pumpkin spiders
  3. pumpkin suit
  4. pumpkin suits
  5. pumpkin-faced
  6. pumpkin-headed
  7. pumpkin-on-a-stick
  8. pumpkin-pie spice
  9. pumpkin-spice latte
  10. pumpkin-spice lattes
  11. pumpkineer

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