Definition of "blockhead" [block•head]

• A person regarded as very stupid; a dolt. (noun)

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• "A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
• "I never heard the word blockhead applied to a woman before, though I do not see why it should not, when there is evident occasion for it."
• "The son of a scribe, who causes the water to run out which little Jesus had collected in puddles, he calls a blockhead, and impious fellow, and causes him to become withered."