pumpkin-headed

English

Adjective

pumpkin-headed (comparative more pumpkin-headed, superlative most pumpkin-headed)

1. (slang, derogatory, dated) Stupid; foolish; fatheaded.
   • 1827 May 11, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 3, column 1:

     The parties made no reply, but were going forward, when the prisoner again called out, at the same time rushing from his house with a gun in his hand, exclaiming “you pumpkin headed b----, if you do not stop and tell me who you are, I'll blow your brains out,” at the same moment pulling the trigger, when the priming flashed in the pan.

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 161:

     “Take that, for being a pumpkin-headed old shellback.”