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Definition of Blockhead |
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Blockhead
A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. Related Definitions: Deficient, Dolt, Fellow, In, Person, Stupid, Understanding |
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Blockhead Quotations
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. Benjamin Franklin Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. Ambrose Bierce The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. Alexander Pope No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Samuel Johnson Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. Giacomo Casanova The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. Jean Baudrillard A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. William Hazlitt The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. George Savile |
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Blockhead Translations
blockhead in German is Idiot, Schafskopf blockhead in Swedish is dumskalle |
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