blunderhead

American  

[bluhn-der-hed] / ˈblʌn dərˌhɛd /

noun

1. Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.

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Etymology

Origin of blunderhead

First recorded in 1690–1700; blunder + head

Example Sentences

In spite of their blunderhead awkwardness, Authors Dreiser and Anderson have won life memberships in the U. S. literary Senate.

From Time Magazine Archive

"What a blunderhead I am!" cries the Colonel, with delight on his countenance, spite of his professed repentance.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The mildest is represented by the winged idiot that John Burroughs' little boy called a "blunderhead."

From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry

"At the rate of this thick-skulled blunderhead, every plow-jobber shall take upon him to read upon divinity."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

What do you suppose I cared whether I waked you or not, you blunderhead.

From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Optic, Oliver