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Meanings of blockheaded in English
(Used informally) stupid.
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Examples for "thick"
Examples for "thick"
1
The thick end of 100 billion has just been given to Ireland.
2
Good butt, great lashes, long and thick, and of course-mybeautiful eyes.
3
The threats are flying thick and fast in the South China Sea.
4
The sand was thick; the horses labored; the drivers shielded their faces.
5
I always have thick boots;- Iamvery particular about that;-andcork soles.
1
No European country has done something as boneheaded as we have.
2
He wanted to slap his forehead over his boneheaded statement.
3
Australian player Nick Kyrgios described the staging of the event as "boneheaded".
4
As boneheaded plays go, this was my best all-time.
5
And yet, with Money Never Sleeps, we've somehow reached a new plateau of sheer boneheaded idiocy.
1
Winnington is a good fellow, but a thickheaded Philistine all the same.
2
I am afraid we cannot make an exception-even for a thickheaded idealist.
3
It flashed on and off, slowly, like some thickheaded, barely articulate monster.
4
While essentially clueless, he didn't seem overbearing, or thickheaded, or mean.
5
Six hours later, when BC woke up, thickheaded, dry-mouthed-andcompletely naked-Chandlerwas gone.
1
He was a fatheaded butcher, not too bright, not much to look at.
2
You always were a fatheaded worm without any soul, weren't you?
3
To call your Sovereign a fatheaded slob in a newsfac might be considered bad taste, but it isn't illegal.
4
Her name was Helena Such-and-So-Forth, and she had sometimes come to Florence's after-darks, usually with one of Mrs Stoker's fatheaded theatrical cronies.
5
But he pauses in his chaffing to say, "After all, if we were in his shoes we should be equally fatheaded."
1
These clumsy, loggerheaded ducks make such a noise and splashing, that the effect is exceedingly curious.
2
In these islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera), which sometimes weighs twenty-two pounds, is very abundant.
1
You blessed wooden-headed ould heretic, the divvle will have you soon enough.
2
He is a wooden-headed person who derives all his ideas from cheap fiction.
3
But not a wooden-headed man-at-arms but looked down upon him.
4
The driver, brassie and spoon are wooden-headed clubs, but the others have always iron heads.
5
I've heard the jokes about wooden-headed sheepherders, and then there are men who have actually been downcountry.
1
I have no patience with the foolish duncical dog -uponmy soul, I have not!
1
Pavek was born a thick-skulled idiot; he'll the a sorry hero.
2
First, I wish to add that your dear friend is both thick-skulled and cowardly.
3
Tarkin glimpsed something in the thick-skulled Chagrian's pink-rimmed cerulean eyes that gave him pause.
4
She didn't call him thick-skulled, but it was implied.
5
They could be thick-skulled and difficult to train.
Usage of blockheaded in English
1
Foreigners and foreigneering Englishmen say it is blockheaded denseness.
2
As Bishop of York but died in disentry in a church on his way to be blockheaded.
3
Do tell us about her; I've been so blockheaded I couldn't put two and two together, but I'm beginning to see daylight at last.
4
Men are rather blockheaded on the subject of fashion, and seldom see the charm in the innately unbecoming and unsuitable, no matter what decrees it.
5
Blockheaded, stubborn lot, every one of them.
6
"Even our own blockheaded trailer-trash in-law kin."
7
"I told her I needed something to threaten my mate with when he got blockheaded, and she said, why not a block for a block?"