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muddlehead

noun

Etymology

From muddle + head.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as muddlehead — “muddle + head”

Definitions

  1. A stupid person.

    • The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe
    • A reactionary muddlehead who waves the feminist banner does not thereby cease to be a reactionary muddlehead.

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