chucklehead
/ˈtʃʌk(ə)lhɛd
/noun informal
A stupid person.That most people in pop music are complete chuckleheads is beyond doubt; but having a bald head and an interest in physics does not make him an intellectual....
- All it takes is a couple of chuckleheads to close a trail.
- ‘I remember one of these chuckleheads more clearly than the others.’
Derivatives
chuckleheaded
/ adjective ...- Plain-speaking and tongue-tied sincerity was a rhetorical convention like any other, but Shakespeare clung to it, embodied in fool-poets, in chuckleheaded peasants and witty children.
- The hysteria can best be summed up in one funny sounding word: chuckleheaded.
Origin
Mid 18th century: from early 18th-century chuckle 'big and clumsy', probably related to chuck3 (sense 2).