Definition of Blockhead

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Definition of Blockhead
	Blockhead A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. Related Definitions: Deficient, Dolt, Fellow, In, Person, Stupid, Understanding

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

Blockhead Translations

blockhead in German is Idiot, Schafskopf
blockhead in Swedish is dumskalle

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