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shallowpate en · NOUN

Etymology

From shallow + pate.

Meanings

1. (derogatory) One whose thinking is shallow or superficial.
   • There were Mr. and Mrs. Merriman, a pretty, vivacious little woman in the thirties; her husband, a jovial fellow, something of a shallow-pate, who laughed a good deal at other people's witticisms, and had thereby made himself extremely popular. 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

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