muddlehead

[ muhd-l-hed ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a stupid person; blunderer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of muddlehead¹

First recorded in 1850–55; muddle + head

Example Sentences

They had a muddlehead there yesterday, sor.

From Project Gutenberg

They had one muddlehead on that post yesterday; they’ll not put another there to-day, sor.”

From Project Gutenberg

After much yawning, interspersed with heavy sighs, she revealed, in the short soliloquy usual among stage heroines, the utter boredom of her life as a mistress at the Muddlehead High School.

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Jacques Haret—commend me to the Jacques Harets of this world for knowing all their rights!—seeing what a muddlehead Mirepoix was, cried stoutly: “I demand to see the governor of the prison, the Grand Prieur de Vendôme.”

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You always was a muddlehead, Natty.

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