单词 | loggerhead |
释义 | loggerheadn. 1. a. A thick-headed or stupid person; a blockhead. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- 1595 Enq. Tripe-wife (1881) 168 That shee should sweare..that she would neuer marrie with the Grocer he was such a logger-head. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 202 Ah you whoreson loggerhead, you were borne to do me shame. View more context for this quotation 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Teste de boeuf, a ioulthead,..logerhead; one whose wit is as little as his head is great. 1708 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 107 A pitifull, sneaking, whining Puritan, related to ye Loggerhead at Lambeth. a1754 H. Fielding Fathers (1778) v. iv. 102 It is almost a pity to hinder these two loggerheads from falling foul of one another. 1790 E. Malone Note on Twelfth Night in Plays & Poems Shakspeare IV. 33 The picture of we three?... I believe Shakspeare had in his thoughts a common sign, in which two wooden heads are exhibited, with this inscription under it: ‘We three loggerheads be’. The spectator or reader is supposed to make the third. 1821 Joseph the Book-man 25 While loggerheads, most dignified, Are soon to wealth and rank allied. 1892 West Cumbld. Times Christm. No. 4/1 (Cumbld. Gloss. 1899) Keep off them rods yeh gert loggerheeds. b. A local coin or token (see quot. 1799). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > token used in place of coin > others tavern-token1601 Harrington1628 palace-crown1653 mint-token1716 loggerhead1797 bank token1800 1797 Sporting Mag. 10 222 The dollars which now circulate through that part of the country [Wales] go by the name of Loggerheads. 1799 J. Conder Provincial Coins 205 [Coins issued within the last 20 years] Loggerheads (White Metal). O[bverse]. A Cart under a Gallows, and three Men hanging, ‘The End of three Loggerheads’. 2. a. A head out of proportion to the body; a large or ‘thick’ head. Chiefly figurative; also in to join, lay loggerheads together. (See also logger adj.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] > empty or stupid head skull1523 jolthead1533 fool's head1577 jolting pate1579 noddle1579 jobbernowl1598 loggerhead1598 cod's head1607 squirrel's brains1647 jolterhead1699 numbskull1718 fiddle-head1887 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > types of head > [noun] jolthead1533 jolting pate1579 copintank1585 jobbernowl1598 loggerhead1598 grout-heada1627 jolterhead1699 potato head1705 numbskull1718 jolter-pate1822 bullet-head1875 horse-head1905 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia iv. sig. D3 His body is so fallen away and leane, That scarce it can his logger-head sustaine. 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all i. 9 Now could I break my own Loggar-head. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 15 These two often join Loggerheads together, and broach more pernicious Contrivances. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. iv. 15 Let us retire, and lay our two loggerheads together. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiii. 276 I have been following you in fear of finding your idle loggerhead knocked against one rock or other. b. (See quot. 1909) Known to be older than 1885. ΚΠ 1909 A. C. Fox-Davies Compl. Guide Heraldry 193 The leopard's face... For some unfathomable reason these charges when they occur in the arms of Shrewsbury are usually referred to locally as ‘loggerheads’. 3. a. An iron instrument with a long handle and a ball or bulb at the end used, when heated in the fire, for melting pitch and for heating liquids. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > heating or melting instrument loggerhead1687 blast-lampa1884 blow-lamp1896 blow-torch1909 torch1909 thermal lance1973 1687 in J. Strype Stow's Survey of London (1720) II. v. xviii. 288/2 Not to suffer Pitch, Tar, Rozin, &c. to be heated on board by Fire, Loggerhead Shot, or any other thing. 1732 Act 5 Geo. II c. 20 §4 If any Master..shall..cause or permit to be heated or melted by Fire, Logger Heat, Shot..any Pitch, Tar, Rosin, Grease [etc.]. 1760 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 158/2 We put hot logger heads in buckets of tar and pitch. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Logger-head, an iron for heating tar. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner I. v. 90 Three or four loggerheads (long irons clubbed at the end) were always lying in the fire in the cold season, waiting to be plunged into sputtering and foaming mugs of flip. 1900 A. M. Earle Stage Coach & Tavern Days v. 108 Into this mixture [flip] was thrust and stirred a red-hot loggerhead, made of iron and shaped like a poker. b. (See quot. 1904.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > writing stand standisha1350 writing standish1703 ink-standishc1730 inkstand1773 loggerhead1904 suzuribako1967 1904 Athenæum 27 Feb. 280/1 The inkstands..include many of the prototypes of the circular heavy inkstand, still used, and known to many under the old name of ‘loggerheads’. 4. a. ‘An upright rounded piece of wood, near the stern of a whale-boat, for catching a turn of the line to’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867). Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bitts or Samson post bitta1614 Samson's post1769 riding bitt1794 loggerhead1840 strongback1867 snubbing-post1875 snub-post1875 Samson bar1889 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 30 The saddles..have large pommels or loggerheads in front, round which the ‘lasso’ is coiled when not in use. 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors ix. 137 It passes..around a post called the loggerhead, firmly secured to the frame of the boat. 1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ v. 39 I looked for the rushing of the line round the loggerhead (a stout wooden post built into the boat aft). b. (See quot. 1836.) ΚΠ 1836 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 702 The beam or loggerhead, for the purpose of transmitting the motion of the piston to the pumps in the mine. 5. ? = loggat n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > games resembling quoits > [noun] > object thrown penny-stone?c1475 loggat1773 loggerhead1871 rope quoit1876 jukskei1942 1871 G. R. Cutting Student Life Amherst 112 The game of ‘loggerheads’ has become obsolete, in this part of the country... A ‘loggerhead’ was a spherical mass of wood, with a long handle, and the game consisted of an attempt to hurl this towards a fixed stake, in such a manner as to leave it as near as possible. 6. As the popular name of various heavy-headed animals. a. (Also loggerhead turtle, †loggerhead tortoise.) A species of turtle, Thalassochelys caretta. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Cheloniidae > member of genus Caretta (loggerhead) loggerhead turtle1657 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 4 The Loggerhead Turtle. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 103 There are 4 sorts of Sea-turtle... The Loggerhead is so called, because it hath a great Head. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. ii. 30 On the 24th we caught a large loggerhead tortoise. 1842 T. Hood Turtles in New Monthly Mag. June 273 Poor loggerheads from far Ascension ferried! 1884 Girl's Own Paper Feb. 227/1 A rarer kind [of tortoise-shell] is derived from the loggerhead turtle, a native of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. 1895 Royal Nat. Hist. V. 83 The third, and probably the largest species of turtle, is the loggerhead (Thalassochelys caretta), easily recognised by its enormous head. 1895 Royal Nat. Hist. V. 84 The Mexican loggerhead (T. kempi), from the Gulf of Mexico, differs in [etc.]. b. applied to (a) two species of tyrant-bird inhabiting Jamaica, Pitangus caudifasciatus and Myiarchus validus or crinitus; (b) a North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus or carolinensis; (c) a large duck of the Falkland Islands, Tachyeres or Micropterus cinereus, the Race-horse or Steamer-duck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > genus Pitangus (kiskadee) loggerhead1657 kiskadee1891 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > member of genus Platyrhynchus > types of loggerhead1657 walking tyrant1823 water-chat1834 silver-bill1883 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > tachyeres brachypterus (steamer) racehorsea1769 loggerhead1776 steamer1827 logger-headed duck1839 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Lanius > lanius ludovicianus (loggerhead) loggerhead1831 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 128 In the Island of Barbadoes, and the adjacent Islands, are certain birds bigger than Sparrows, with a very great head, called by the English Logerheads and Counsellors. a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) i. 185 Sitta seu Picus cinereus major, capite nigro. A Loggerhead. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 300 [Sitta, seu picus Ray] They..let Men come so near them that they knock them down with Sticks, whence they have the Name of Loggerheads. 1776 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 104 Here is a species of ducks, called the loggerhead, from its large head. 1831 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. II. 86 Lanius carolinensis, Wilson. Lanius ludovicianus, Linnæus.—Loggerhead Shrike. 1831 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. II. 87 It is generally known by the name of the loggerhead. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 159 I saw a Loggerhead attack a snake. 1906 N.Y. Evening Post 8 Aug. 2 Charleston S.C. pet canaries are being killed by a bird that is known as the ‘loggerhead’. A loggerhead strikes at the canaries through the bars of the cage. 1939 E. H. Forbush & J. B. May Nat. Hist. Birds Amer. 398 The Loggerhead is an indefatigable destroyer of grasshoppers, for which it seems ever on the watch. c. dialect applied to various fishes, as the bullhead; also to the tadpole. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.) ΚΠ 1776 W. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 102 There are three or four species of the common loggerhead, or sculpa fish, common on the English coasts. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 179 Leuciscus cephalus... Large-headed dace; loggerhead. d. dialect applied to various large moths. ΚΠ 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Loggerhead, the large tiger moth. North. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 1894 Hetton-le-Hole Gloss. Loggerhead, a clouded butterfly. Large moths are also sometimes called ‘loggerheads’. 1899 Cumbld. Gloss. Logger-heed, any kind of moth. The Ghost Moth. 7. dialect. A plant of the genus Centaurea. ΚΠ 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 25 The crop consists almost entirely of the common field scabious (Scabiosa succisa), logger-heads (Centauria nigra) [etc.]. 1866 T. O. Cockayne Leechdoms, Wortcunning & Starcraft III. 315 Saxon Names Plants, Bolwes, loggerheads, centaurea nigra... Loggerheads is a name I have often heard in Oxfordshire. 8. plural in various phrases. to fall, get, go to loggerheads: to come to blows. to be at loggerheads: to be contending about differences of opinion; also, rarely, to come to loggerheads. [The use is of obscure origin; perhaps the instrument described in sense 3, or something similar, may have been used as a weapon.] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > come to blows to come to strokes1297 to fall in hand (also hands)1448 to fall to1577 come (or go), fall, get to blows1594 to go or fall to cuffsa1616 to fall, get, go to loggerheads1671 society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase] in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275 in strife1398 at traversc1448 at issue1474 at a strife1488 at variancea1535 at square1545 at (a) jar1552 at (or to) daggers' drawing1556 at (a) mutiny1567 in (a) mutiny1567 at wrig-wrag1599 at daggers drawn1668 at (or at the, on the) outs1824 loggerhead1831 at daggers' points1857 at swords' points1890 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. i. sig. B4 They frequently quarrell'd about their Scicilian wenches, and indeed..they seem..to be worth the going to Logger-heads for. 1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 49 So we went to loggerheads together, I think that was the word, or Fisty-cuffs. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. i. viii. 41 The others..went to loggerheads with Sancho, whom they soon overthrew. 1806 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 63 In order to destroy one member of the administration, the whole were to be set to loggerheads. 1831 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 25 Jan. (1884) II I hear from London that our successors are at loggerheads. 1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. xxiv. 347 The Lord Chancellor..and the Bishop came to loggerheads in the House of Lords. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 90/3 Uranium men and oil and gas producers had long been at loggerheads due to the fact these natural substances frequently occur on the same site, though at different horizons. 1955 Times 19 May 4/2 The jury would not have much difficulty in getting rid of that suggestion, because those two were obviously at loggerheads. 1975 J. Gardner Killer for Song i. 13 ‘James, it's good to see you.’ His expression was at loggerheads with the words. 9. attributive or adj.= logger-headed adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1684 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 301 For sayeing col. Sidney's jury were a loggerhead jury. Compounds loggerhead sponge n. a West Indian sponge of inferior quality; ‘probably named from Loggerhead Key’ (Webster Suppl. 1902). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1595 |
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