| 释义 |
chowderhead U.S.|ˈtʃaʊdəhɛd|
[cf. jolter-head, and E.D.D. Cholter-head n., Jolter-head n.]
A blockhead; a muddle-headed person.
1833J. Neal Down-Easters I. 119 That's our Amos! if taint I'm a chowderhead. 1838in Amer. Speech (1964) XXXIX. 263 A few sculpins and haddock were all that could be persuaded to make chowderheads of themselves. 1932F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 2 Aug. (1964) 498, I do not destinate to signify that you were a wiseacre, witling, dizzard, chowderhead. 1967R. J. Serling President's Plane is Missing (1968) iv. 62 The stupid chowderheads would cut Shakespeare. |