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buffle-headed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Having a large head, like a buffalo's.
  2. (obsolete) dull; stupid; blundering
    • So fell this buffle-headed Gyant by the hand of Don Quixot 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot:
    • A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery. 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:

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Relateds

boofhead · bufflehead

Synonyms

inane · dim-bulb · idiotic · thick as two short planks · mindless · dopey · unsmart · Boeotian · chowderheaded · smooth-brained · thick · woolly-minded · dumb as a sack of hammers · beefheaded · childish · dense · thick as mince · simple · beetle-headed · braindead · dumb as a doorknob · foolish · dim-headed · dim-witted · thickwitted · ignorant · dumb as a post · dull-witted · pudding-headed · slow · uninformed · quarter-witted · sharp as a bowling ball · flea-brained · dumb · dented · unintelligent · airheaded · retarded · pratty · beef-witted · boneheaded · nitwitted · insipid · obtuse · fuzzy-minded · witless · moronic · half-witted · goofy · addlepated · daft · puerile · bee-brained · dozy · not the sharpest knife in the drawer · dumb as an ox · brainless · thick as a whale omelette · intellectually challenged · woolly-headed · empty-headed · ass-brained · purblind · knuckleheaded · dull-minded · fatheaded · lamebrained · cerebrally challenged · unapprehensive · lowbrow · cretinous · lunkheaded · feeble-minded · bullet-headed · slow-witted · numbskulled · muttonheaded · not the sharpest crayon in the box · thick as champ · not the sharpest tool in the shed · thick-skulled · bubbleheaded · oafish · dull-headed · dumber than a box of rocks · monosynaptic · dumb as a box of rocks · drowsy · thick as a brick · shit-for-brains · thick as pig shit · buffle-headed · dim · unclever · dumb as dirt · fuckwitted · blockheaded · mentally challenged · stupid · vacant · stolid · slow on the uptake · dull · fuzzy-headed · silly · ridiculous · imbecilic · crackbrained · dumber than a rock · half-brained · dunderheaded · dumb as a bag of hammers · thickheaded · peabrained · hammer-headed · addlebrained · wooden-headed · wool-headed · vacuous · mentally retarded · doltish · thick as a plank · chuckleheaded · rockheaded · boofheaded · sheep-headed · soft · birdbrained · lumpish