shallowpate

English

Etymology

shallow +‎ pate

Noun

shallowpate (plural shallowpates)

1. (derogatory) One whose thinking is shallow or superficial.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     There were Mr. and Mrs. Merriman, a pretty, vivacious little woman in the thirties; her husband, a jovial fellow, something of a shallow-pate, who laughed a good deal at other people's witticisms, and had thereby made himself extremely popular.