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blunderhead|ˈblʌndəhɛd|
[f. blunder n. or v. + head: probably an alteration of the earlier dunderhead, as blunderbuss represents donderbus.]
A blundering muddle-headed fellow.
1697Vanbrugh Relapse iv. i. (1730) 72 My Fellow's a Blunderhead. a1704Lestrange (J.) This thick-skulled blunderhead. 1884Academy 22 Mar. 199 That order of good-natured blunderheads wherein certain lady novelists..delight.
Hence ˈblunderˌheaded a., blundering, stupid, muddle-headed; ˈblunderˌheadedness.
1763Brit. Mag. IV. 418 The blunder-headed fellow had laid the white-stone plates. 1835Sir J. Ross N.-W. Pass. lvi. 720 With the blunderheadedness of men on such occasions, he assured me that I had been dead two years. |