dummkopf

[ doom-kawf, -kawpf, duhm- ]

noun

1. a stupid person; dumbbell; blockhead.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dummkopf¹

1800–10, Americanism; < German, equivalent to dumm dumb + Kopf head

Example Sentences

We stay here—ja—because this Dummkopf has the controls gebrochen!

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Didn't you feel their stun guns, Dummkopf, when they sprung the trap—too soon, Gott sei Dank?

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She hesitated and he yelled out, "Dummkopf" and then turned to me and smiled.

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The waiter did not know what it was and the irascible Teuton informed him bluntly that he was a Dummkopf.

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