muttonhead
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- muttonheaded adjective
Etymology
Origin of muttonhead
Example Sentences
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He even called George Washington a “muttonhead” and “too illiterate, unlearned, unread, for his station and reputation.”
From Washington Post
Scarcely has the door closed behind him when Scirocco bursts out violently: "You are a muttonhead, Pistasch; the little banker is a hundred times cleverer than you."
From Project Gutenberg
"Could be more use than you think, muttonhead."
From Project Gutenberg
I rather liked the idea; but the old muttonhead got me up before all the school, and read me such a lecture!
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Even when the nurse pulls one of the unresisting muttonheads, and it emits a loud "Baa-a," she stops only just for a second or two and then wails again.
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