noun
Meaning 1
A stupid person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
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Standard Lemma guide
blockhead
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noun
Meaning 2
Short for human blockhead
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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noun
Meaning 3
A fan of the American boy band New Kids on the Block.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
Meaning 4
To perform as a human blockhead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 5
To behave in a stupid manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
Meaning 6
a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock
History
Etymology
1532, block (noun) + -head.
From block + -head.
Across languages
Translations
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: տխմար (txmar) — stupid person
- Armenian: դանդալոշ (dandaloš) — stupid person
- Bulgarian: глупа́к (glupák) — stupid person
- Catalan: totxo — stupid person
- Catalan: totxa — stupid person
- Chinese Cantonese: 豬頭丙 /猪头丙 (zyu1 tau4 bing2) — stupid person
- Chinese Mandarin: 傻子 (shǎzi) — stupid person
- Chinese Mandarin: 傻瓜 (shǎguā) — stupid person
- Czech: hlupák — stupid person
- Czech: pitomec — stupid person
- Danish: dosmer — stupid person
- Dutch: stomkop — stupid person
- Dutch: domkop — stupid person
- Finnish: pölkkypää — stupid person
- Finnish: puupää — stupid person
- Finnish: läskipää — stupid person
- French: imbécile — stupid person
- French: cancre — stupid person
- German: Dummkopf — stupid person
- Ancient Greek: στέλεχος (stélekhos) — stupid person
- Hindi: चपड़गंजू (capaṛgañjū) — stupid person
- Ingrian: durakka — stupid person
- Ingrian: vohma — stupid person
- Ingrian: hapalka — stupid person
- Ingrian: oolo — stupid person
- Ingrian: tuhkuri — stupid person
- Ingrian: tuhkapää — stupid person
- Ingrian: tuhkapussi — stupid person
- Ingrian: foofana — stupid person
- Ingrian: bolvana — stupid person
- Irish: blocán — stupid person
- Irish: ceann cipín — stupid person
- Irish: ceann maide — stupid person
- Irish: ceann máilléid — stupid person
- Irish: cloigeann maide — stupid person
- Irish: dundarlán — stupid person
- Irish: lúmaire — stupid person
- Italian: imbecille — stupid person
- Italian: idiota — stupid person
- Italian: testone — stupid person
- Japanese: 木偶の坊 (dekunobō) — stupid person
- Japanese: 薄鈍 (usunoro) — stupid person
- Japanese: 鈍間 (noroma) — stupid person
- Korean: 바보 (babo) — stupid person
- Kyrgyz: акмак (akmak) — stupid person
- Kyrgyz: келесоо (kelesoo) — stupid person
- Latin: blennus — stupid person
- Latin: caudex — stupid person
- Latin: gurdus — stupid person
- Latin: buccō — stupid person
- Latin: stīpes — stupid person
- Luxembourgish: Dräibiz — stupid person
- Macedonian: тапчо (tapčo) — stupid person
- Māori: moho — stupid person
- Māori: porokohete — stupid person
- Polish: przygłup — stupid person
- Polish: dureń — stupid person
- Polish: tępak — stupid person
- Polish: zakuty łeb — stupid person
- Polish: bałwan — stupid person
- Polish: bałwanica — stupid person
- Polish: bęcwał — stupid person
- Portuguese: idiota — stupid person
- Russian: тупи́ца (tupíca) — stupid person
- Russian: болва́н (bolván) — stupid person
- Russian: бе́столочь (béstoločʹ) — stupid person
- Russian: дура́к (durák) — stupid person
- Russian: о́лух (ólux) — stupid person
- Sanskrit: दुर्मति (durmati) — stupid person
- Scottish Gaelic: amadan — stupid person
- Scottish Gaelic: burraidh — stupid person
- Slovak: hlupák — stupid person
- Slovak: tupec — stupid person
- Slovak: somár — stupid person
- Spanish: idiota — stupid person
- Swedish: träskalle (woodhead) — stupid person
- Swedish: dumhuvud — stupid person
- Telugu: మొద్దు (moddu) — stupid person
- Turkish: ahmak — stupid person
- Turkish: aptal — stupid person
- Turkish: gerzek — stupid person
- Turkish: hıyarağası — stupid person
- Turkish: mankafa — stupid person
- Ottoman Turkish: طوی (toy) — stupid person