释义 |
lunkhead colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈlʌŋkhɛd| A blockhead. Hence lunkˈheaded a., thickheaded, stupid.
1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxii. 225 So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare. 1889A. W. Tourgee in Chicago Advance 19 Dec., You dear old lunkhead, I congratulate you! 1901J. A. Riis Making an American 315 A miserable little lunkhead quite beyond hope. 1885J. Hill Corsairs 19 Prospecters tearfully eloquent to the horny-handed (and lunkheaded). 1908Daily Chron. 23 July 3/2 Now do you see, you lunkhead? 1934Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves v. 52 A lunkhead capable of mucking things up as Gussie had done. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris ix. 165 They are not all lunkheads or mountebanks. 1966Punch 7 Dec. 868/1 The poor lunkhead's concerns soon get lost under all the modelling and backlighting. |