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dummkopf

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[doom-kawf, -kawpf, duhm-] / ˈdʊmˌkɔf, -ˌkɔpf, ˈdʌm- /

noun

  1. a stupid person; dumbbell; blockhead.

Etymology

Origin of dummkopf

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

Example Sentences

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I’m glad of it, boy, because I don’t want what the Germans call a dummkopf to help me.

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville

So thou must not fash thyself about the lad, du liebe dummkopf, for he will come right very speedily.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

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