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    • Old-fashioned someone who is stupid

      • From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English dun‧der‧head /ˈdʌndəhed $ -ər-/ noun [countable] old-fashioned someone who is stupid Examples from the Corpus dunderhead • It is obvious that the dunderheads in our federal government are incapable of achieving this compromise-without-disgrace.
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  2. noun [ C ] old-fashioned informal uk / ˈdʌn.də.hed / us / ˈdʌn.dɚ.hed / Add to word list. a stupid person. Synonyms. blockhead old-fashioned informal. bonehead slang. dunce disapproving. knucklehead US informal. numskull informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Stupid and silly people. airhead. berk. birdbrain. blithering idiot.

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  3. noun. dun· der· head ˈdən-dər-ˌhed. Synonyms of dunderhead. : dunce, blockhead. dunderheaded. ˌdən-dər-ˈhe-dəd. adjective. Synonyms. airhead. birdbrain. blockhead. bonehead. bubblehead. chowderhead. chucklehead. clodpoll. clodpole. clot [British] cluck. clunk. cretin. cuddy [British dialect] cuddie. deadhead. dim bulb [slang] dimwit. dip. dodo.

  4. A person who's not so smart might be called a dunderhead. If you manage to start a fire while attempting to fry an egg, your mom might call you a dunderhead.

  5. The earliest known use of the noun dunderhead is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for dunderhead is from 1630, in the writing of Philip Massinger, playwright. dunderhead is perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item.

  6. dunderhead - a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

  7. Dunderhead definition: a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.. See examples of DUNDERHEAD used in a sentence.

  8. dunderhead in American English. (ˈdʌndərˌhed) noun. a foolish or ignorant person; dunce. Also called: dunderpate (ˈdʌndərˌpeit) Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Derived forms.

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