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Meanings of numskull in inglés
A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.
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Examples for "blockhead"
Examples for "blockhead"
1
Extricate is not the word, you blockhead; extract, I suppose you mean.
2
Originally it was called a blockhead, but that tag never really stuck.
3
Ugh, you are choking me, blockhead; let it be as it is.
4
It's not right for a teacher to call anybody's child a blockhead.
5
The German blockhead having said his say, now the Italian one begins.
1
The hero of the playing fields becomes the dunce of the office.
2
Well, hand me the dunce cap Grace, because I must respectfully disagree.
3
Either she was a real dunce or she was stalling for time.
4
Not all are convinced that Pisa officials should don the dunce cap.
5
The dunce objective, on the contrary, is of an entirely different species.
1
Good point, even if it was made by a patronizing Limey shithead.
2
Being cut off by shithead drivers multiple times made it much harder.
3
The shithead was in Yuba City, right down the road from Red Bluff.
4
I've traveled two hundred light-years to be called a fat shithead?
5
If you're a bitch, or fat, or a lazy shithead, that's your fault.
1
Then suddenly, they were upon us: hundreds and hundreds of hammerhead sharks.
2
Way down the valley, thick hammerhead clouds were sliding toward her.
3
And no other hammerhead viroid trait is more remarkable than its mutation rate.
4
The hammerhead shark mascot paraded up and down the length of the pool.
5
And she's watching this big hammerhead shark darting really close to the glass.
1
And since you're a dumbass, I'll tell you what your jugular is.
2
Stefano Cagnotto, the dumbass sorry excuse for a piece of motherfuckin' shit.'
3
He just associates poems with some teacher telling him he's a dumbass.
4
That's right.' Luigi looked away, maybe the dumbass would catch on.
5
I'm pretty sure every third bark translates to human as dumbass.
1
The boozer gets out of the game as certainly as the bonehead.
2
Because the sheriff's a bonehead and because our marshal is solid ivory.
3
A bonehead, but his finger would be steady enough on the trigger.
4
It's just that I've made my quota of bonehead plays for this week.
5
But I will explain how I made such a bonehead error.
1
The green or loggerhead turtles are rarely seen north of Cape Florida.
2
For my part, I noted only some loggerhead turtles with long carapaces.
3
Its dune-ridden beaches are nesting sites for loggerhead and Kemp's Ridley sea turtles.
4
The Two Oceans Aquarium recently rescued a loggerhead turtle floating near Hout Bay.
5
The loggerhead lays three sets of eggs, each averaging one hundred and seventy.
1
That lunkhead, Ike, my nephew, ain't such a lunkhead as he looks.
2
Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, I never see such a lunkhead as you.
3
The matter is I'm a lunkhead and Newport bores me stiff.
4
Me an' that lunkhead Ike, my nephew, hev took a likin' to you.
5
Nothin', of course, would wake that lunkhead, Ike, my nephew.
1
That fuckhead Little Ease let you have quite an education, didn't he?
2
But the fuckhead and I have a worse problem right now.
3
So instead I pick the fuckhead up and fold him over my shoulder.
4
Nah, it's good of you to worry, but I know the fuckhead in question.
5
I'm letting this fuckhead grab my mind and shake me.
1
I never saw such a dunderhead; can't you understand anything at all?
2
Failure to pay back loans exposes Edward for the dunderhead he is.
3
The dunderhead's as poor a judge of men as he's marksman.
4
After quiet had been restored, Philippina began to rage and rant: Daniel's a dunderhead.
5
You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses!
1
Some knucklehead has inadvertently strayed into the middle of the launch operation.
2
That... knucklehead will take 79 to the West Virginia state line.
3
For a knucklehead, a group I include myself in, yelling works.
4
Narrated by a fast-talking wiseguy who describes characters as knucklehead No.
5
I'm pretty sure someone calls someone else a "knucklehead" at one point.
1
He felt personally aggrieved and unconsciously held his muttonhead companion responsible for it.
2
That muttonhead Ser Ryman puts a noose round Edmure's neck, but will not hang him.
3
Why, you muttonhead, I found him where he was bleeding to death and brought him in.
4
And what a total muttonhead I was being!
5
Conall might be an untrusting muttonhead, a Scotsman, and a werewolf, but the man knew a thing or two about feminine fripperies.
Usage of numskull in inglés
1
This, roughly speaking, is the notion of the average male numskull today.
2
You are a numskull, you are,- agoose ,thedisgrace of the army.
3
For a simple numskull of a shepherd are so many words necessary?
4
What crotchet has that swaggering booby got in his numskull, I wonder?
5
What do you mean, you numskull, by saying that they are Prussians?
6
In any case, it's much too good for a peasant numskull like you.
7
You're the most ill-used lad and I the greatest numskull in the county.
8
The message was here all the time-thatnumskull Heinrich forgot it.
9
John, did you ever know that your father was a stupid old numskull?
10
I said Hastings said it; and he is not in the least a numskull.
11
The idea is singular enough, I own, the presuming to astonish his serene numskull.
12
Anybody but a silly old numskull would have done so.
13
Arthur Hugh Clough is, perhaps, the 'flawless numskull,' as, I think, Swinburne calls him.
14
Deadest numskull I ever saw-ain'teven got sense enough to load up a stove.'
15
The numskull said there was something wrong with my house!
16
I'll go hunt up that old blockhead, that absurd numskull!
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