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wooden-headnoun informalA stupid person.The wooden-heads in question must have known what was happening unless they also ‘get the hell out of it’ for that week....- It is epitomized in a historian's statement about Philip II of Spain, the surpassing wooden-head of all sovereigns: ‘No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.’
Derivativeswooden-headed /ˌwʊd(ə)nˈhɛdɪd / adjective ...- Paul Winchell was a pioneer of early television, appearing on hundreds of shows with his wooden-headed friends, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff.
- Certain wooden-headed elements of the left will, of course, continue to assert that little, if anything, new has happened as a result of this election.
- I blame City Hall, whose wooden-headed staff some years ago conceived the idea of moving Songkran day from its traditional date, and fitting it in with their own, purely local ‘Pattaya Festival’.
wooden-headedness /ˌwʊd(ə)nˈhɛdɪdnəs/ noun ...- I remember one incident in which a young student was displaying astonishing wooden-headedness.
- But all this matters little, if wooden-headedness continues to prevail with respect to the president.
- This is just one prime example of how wooden-headedness is present and the more books one reads the more examples can be uncovered.
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