dunderheadnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdʌn.də.hed/us/ˈdʌn.dɚ.hed/old-fashioned informala stupid person
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Stupid and silly people
- a right one idiom
- airhead
- asshole
- berk
- birdbrain
- dolt
- doofus
- dork
- duffer
- dullard
- muggins
- muppet
- mutt
- need
- need your head examined idiom
- simpleton
- stupid
- thicko
- tosser
- turkey
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Examples from literature
- Am I such a dunderhead that I haven't made that plain?
- Do you mean to say you were such a pack of dunderheads you didn't see it coming?
- It is particularly unpleasant to hear a bullet come singing and booming down the line from some excited dunderhead on the far left or right.
- The lazy dunderhead, I'll soon fix him!
- You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses!