muddlehead

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

muddle +‎ head

Noun[edit]

muddlehead (plural muddleheads)

  1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
    • 1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events:
      The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe
    • 1978 April 1, John Lauritsen, “Praising Mitzel”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
      A reactionary muddlehead who waves the feminist banner does not thereby cease to be a reactionary muddlehead.

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