chowderheadn.
/ˈtʃaʊdəhɛd/ U.S.
A blockhead; a muddle-headed person.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun]
mafflardc1450
juffler15..
dromedary1567
madbrain1570
batie buma1586
addle-head1592
blunderkin1596
nit1598
addle-pate1601
hash1655
blunderbuss1692
blunderhead1692
shaffles1703
fog-pate1732
blunderer1741
puzzle-pate1761
slouch1767
étourdi1768
botch1769
puddle1782
bumble1789
scatter-brain1790
addle-brain1799
puzzle-head1815
shaffler1828
chowderhead1833
muddlehead1833
muddler1833
flounderer1836
duffer1842
muddle-pate1844
plug1848
incompetent1866
schlemiel1868
dinlo1873
drumble-dore1881
hodmandod1881
dub1887
prune1895
foozler1896
bollock1916
messer1926
Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942
spaz1965
spastic1981
1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. 119 That's our Amos! if taint I'm a chowderhead.
1838 in Amer. Speech (1964) 39 263 A few sculpins and haddock were all that could be persuaded to make chowderheads of themselves.
1932 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 2 Aug. (1964) 498 I do not destinate to signify that you were a wiseacre, witling, dizzard, chowderhead.
1967 R. J. Serling President's Plane is Missing (1968) iv. 62 The stupid chowderheads would cut Shakespeare.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1833- to lift a hand to
- to lift a hand to a person
- to lift a hand to a thing
- to lift a person out
- to lift a person's hair
- to lift a person's spirits
- to lift at
- to lift from the font
- to lift hair
- to lift one's elbow
- to lift one's eyes, brow, face, visage
- to lift one's heart out of one's boots
- to lift one's heel against
- to lift one's leg
- to lift one's leg over
- to lift one'the elbow
- to lift or move a lip
- to lift out
- to lift the corporate veil
- to lift the hand
- to lift the hand(occasionally one's arm
- to lift the hands
- to lift the roof
- to lift the veil
- to lift the veil from