block-head

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Noun[edit]

block-head (plural block-heads)

  1. Alternative form of blockhead
    • 1835, Jacob Abbott, New England and her institutions, page 226:
      Old Boreas, the king of the winds, will order out a snow-storm by and bye to block up the roads, so that none but booted and weatherproof boys can get to school, and you, Miss, must lose a day or two, and then find yourself at the foot, with those block-head boys who always abide there.
    • 1872, R.B. Forbes, Life-Boats, Projectiles And Other Means For Saving Life, →ISBN, page 113:
      A classification of the block is necessary, yet that does not always, if generally, regulate the premium; the classification of the block-head who is to command is not suificiently taken into account!
    • 2006, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, →ISBN, page 94:
      He resolved “never again to think of marrying; and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with any one who would be block-head enough to have me."

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