blockhead

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A stupid person.

   • [S]o I think, blockheads, ſaid Manfred; what is it has ſcared you thus?
   • […]like a conceited mechanic in a village ale-house, you would set down every one who differs from you as an ignorant blockhead[…]
   • "What a blockhead that Charlie Brown is!"
2. 2

   Short for human blockhead

   • Waldo was sent that from an elderly blockhead named Fuzzy in Gibtown, Florida. That's the town to which most freaks retire.
   • He is a classic sideshow performer, entertaining crowds with feats such as sword swallowing, fire-eating, and chainsaw juggling. His specialty, however, is the human blockhead act, hammering six-inch nails up his nostrils.
3. 3

   To perform as a human blockhead.

   • Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating.
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   1. 4

      To behave in a stupid manner.

      • Two years' blockading made fair Malta ours: A noble struggle! -- yet 't is thought (at Rading) That Britain's island shews superior pow'rs, To bear, and to survive, two years blockheading !
      • I have blockheading and boxing enough at Master Lovell's, I won't have it repeated here; and in a great passion, I threw the Virgil at his head, hit him in the face, and bruised his lip, and ran away.
   2. 5

      A fan of the American boy band New Kids on the Block.

      • McCartneymania seemed to be a chance for the parents of Blockheads, the kids who swarmed the New Kids on the Block last week, to do a little gawking of their own.
      • There’s no doubt it has the right stuff to lure both Blockheads and those who didn’t grow up listening to Donnie Wahlberg’s New Kids on the Block or Mark [Wahlberg]’s Funky Bunch.

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