fathead
English
Etymology
Noun
fathead (plural fatheads)
- (derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:
- ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’
- Donny, you fathead! You forgot to put the milk in the fridge and now it's spoiled!
- A cyprinid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
- A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.
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- Any of several species of fish of the genus Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fathead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Synonyms
- (derogatory): dunce, imbecile, lout, nincompoop, see also Thesaurus:idiot
Antonyms
- (derogatory): genius
Translations
idiot
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Pimephales promelas
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Semicossyphus pulcher
Psychrolutes microporos
fish of the genus Cubiceps