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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLOCK'HEAD, n. [block and head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1549 a stupid person

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a stupid person. Derivatives: blockheaded adj.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blockhead Block"head`, n. [Block + head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. --Pope.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Simpleton, fool. See dunce.

Moby Thesaurus

addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, blubberhead, blunderer, blunderhead, bonehead, boor, botcher, bufflehead, bumbler, bungler, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clod, clodhead, clodhopper, clodknocker, clodpate, clodpoll, clot, clown, dimwit, dolt, dolthead, dullhead, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummy, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, fumbler, gawk, gowk, jolterhead, jughead, klutz, knucklehead, looby, lout, lubber, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, nitwit, noodlehead, numskull, oaf, ox, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, slouch, slubberer, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyhead, yokel