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blockheadism

noun

Etymology

From blockhead + -ism.

  1. derived from *bʰelǵ-✻
  2. derived from *blukką✻
  3. derived from *blokk✻
  4. derived from *blok✻
  5. derived from blok
  6. derived from bloc
  7. inherited from blok
  8. formed as blockhead — “block + -head”
  9. suffixed as blockheadism — “blockhead + ism”

Definitions

  1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead

    The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity or idiocy.

    • Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hébert[.]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA