bullet-headed en · ADJ
Meanings
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Having a pointed head that is reminiscent of a bullet.
Her weight was on one leg; she rested her left elbow in the curve of her hip, pointing at us with upturned palm. She was bullet-headed with strange almond-shaped eyes, straight nose, and an Indian-bow mouth. She seemed seven feet high.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:They reached a crossroads in the forest, at which they had to turn in loose sand and struggle up a slope. The wheels of the gun carriages sank in the sand and the horses, as exhausted and undernourished as the men, could not budge them, nor did the exertions of the gun crews help. Yaroslav led his men to the aid of the cheerful, bullet-headed sergeant major, and they got two of the guns moving, but the sergeant major had to harness eight horses instead of six to each of the others, and the whole column was held up yet again.
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
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Stubborn and stupid.
It had to be done, said the dogged, bullet-headed Briton.
1880, The Gentleman's Magazine - Volume 249, page 104:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more bullet-headed | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most bullet-headed | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Synonyms
thick as mince · dumb as a sack of hammers · beef-witted · insipid · dull-minded · smooth-brained · thick as two short planks · nitwitted · mentally retarded · dumb as a doorknob · purblind · flea-brained · dozy · dim-headed · idiotic · dumb as dirt · drowsy · sheep-headed · obtuse · dumb as a box of rocks · bubbleheaded · inane · intellectually challenged · thick as champ · thick-skulled · dumb as a post · dim · woolly-minded · thickwitted · Boeotian · thick as a brick · beetle-headed · retarded · fuzzy-headed · not the sharpest crayon in the box · knuckleheaded · rockheaded · hammer-headed · ass-brained · daft · dented · thick as a whale omelette · monosynaptic · addlebrained · not the sharpest knife in the drawer · buffle-headed · feeble-minded · fuzzy-minded · addlepated · half-brained · moronic · dense · bee-brained · silly · crackbrained · mindless · birdbrained · dumb as a bag of hammers · ridiculous · bullet-headed · lowbrow · pudding-headed · beefheaded · dull · dunderheaded · chuckleheaded · muttonheaded · dull-witted · simple · not the sharpest tool in the shed · ignorant · numbskulled · thick as pig shit · chowderheaded · dumber than a box of rocks · thick · vacuous · vacant · boofheaded · unapprehensive · half-witted · dumber than a rock · uninformed · witless · pratty · woolly-headed · thickheaded · cerebrally challenged · mentally challenged · dim-witted · dumb · wooden-headed · sharp as a bowling ball · oafish · slow · shit-for-brains · goofy · unintelligent · unclever · lumpish · thick as a plank · stupid · dim-bulb · cretinous · soft · slow on the uptake · lamebrained · dull-headed · slow-witted · puerile · quarter-witted · empty-headed · lunkheaded · blockheaded · brainless · dopey · doltish · unsmart · foolish · boneheaded · airheaded · fuckwitted · imbecilic · peabrained · braindead · stolid · wool-headed · childish · fatheaded · dumb as an ox