dummkopf
/ˈdo͝omˌkôf/ /-ˌkôpf/ /ˈdəm-
/noun
A stupid person; a blockhead.I experienced May 8 in Marienbad, as a seventeen year old dummkopf who believed in the final victory right up to the end....
- ‘Eh, it's Alex, that dummkopf,’ the other man said.
- ‘Don't be a coward and hide, French dummkopf,’ he spat the words out at the Frenchman.
Origin
Early 19th century: from German dumm 'dumb' + Kopf 'head'.
- workload
- work-loom
- workman
- workmanlike
- workmanly
- workman's club
- workmanship
- workmaster
- workmate
- work measurement
- workmen's club
- work-minded
- work-mindedness
- workmistress
- work name
- work of art
- work one's ass (butt, etc.) off
- work one's fingers to the bone
- work one's passage
- work one's way through university (or college, etc.)
- work one's way up
- work one's will on/upon
- work (or do) wonders
- work (or run) oneself into the ground
- work out