chuckleheaded en · ADJ
Etymology
From chuckle + headed.
Meanings
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stupid, idiotic
Though a good chuckle-headed fellow, and free with his bread and cheese, he seemed to have his lord the Abbot on the brain[.]
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40:In one of these chuckleheaded essays about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Martin Amis complains about the use of the shorthand 9/11: “My principal objection to the numbers is that they are numbers,” he writes in “The Second Plane.”
2008 April 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Novelist’s Crash Course on Terror”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more chuckleheaded | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most chuckleheaded | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
dopey · mindless · addlebrained · intellectually challenged · mentally retarded · insipid · ignorant · foolish · airheaded · chuckleheaded · empty-headed · dense · half-brained · wool-headed · pratty · thick as mince · addlepated · dim-witted · sheep-headed · bubbleheaded · thickheaded · dim-bulb · silly · slow-witted · childish · dumber than a box of rocks · dull-minded · drowsy · stolid · woolly-headed · witless · lumpish · thick as two short planks · soft · thick as a plank · flea-brained · fuckwitted · half-witted · dumb as an ox · dented · dull-witted · beefheaded · thick-skulled · cerebrally challenged · rockheaded · birdbrained · pudding-headed · dumb · fuzzy-headed · oafish · quarter-witted · shit-for-brains · Boeotian · beef-witted · boneheaded · fuzzy-minded · purblind · bee-brained · thick as a brick · dozy · smooth-brained · idiotic · unsmart · dim-headed · monosynaptic · boofheaded · thick as champ · lowbrow · imbecilic · knuckleheaded · wooden-headed · daft · numbskulled · puerile · inane · ridiculous · slow on the uptake · braindead · vacant · stupid · sharp as a bowling ball · fatheaded · blockheaded · hammer-headed · not the sharpest crayon in the box · thick as pig shit · dumber than a rock · dim · thick · chowderheaded · unclever · peabrained · buffle-headed · dumb as a box of rocks · unapprehensive · ass-brained · cretinous · thick as a whale omelette · doltish · obtuse · simple · beetle-headed · dunderheaded · bullet-headed · brainless · dumb as dirt · thickwitted · muttonheaded · lamebrained · retarded · uninformed · dumb as a sack of hammers · dull-headed · nitwitted · moronic · goofy · mentally challenged · vacuous · not the sharpest knife in the drawer · unintelligent · feeble-minded · crackbrained · not the sharpest tool in the shed · dumb as a doorknob · dumb as a post · slow · lunkheaded · dull · dumb as a bag of hammers · woolly-minded