beetlehead

[ beet-l-hed ]

noun

1. a stupid person; blockhead.

Other Words From

• beetle·headed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of beetlehead¹

First recorded in 1570–80; beetle ² + head

Example Sentences

Beetlehead sticks his face in close and asks what I want.

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"We will perform an autopsy," Hitler's grandson says, and turns to another beetlehead.

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Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice.

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The black-bellied plover or beetlehead, which occurred along the Atlantic seaboard in great numbers years ago, is now seen only as a straggler.

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