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• n  a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

• In Polish, the word for snowman, balwan, has a second meaning: blockhead or dummy.
• Three months in, Charlie Brown gets his stripy shirt, and he gets called a blockhead for the first time in 1951.
• The emotion-heavy words that are easiest to spot are epithets and endearments: blockhead, scumbum, heel, sweetheart, darling, great human being and the like.

• dunce
• dunderhead
• numskull
• bonehead
• lunkhead
• hammerhead
• knucklehead
• loggerhead
• muttonhead
• shithead
• dumbass
• fuckhead

News & Articles

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• Seen@E3: The Evil Within's terrifying blockhead
  Pyramids don't have a monopoly on terrifying head shapes, at least not if The Evil Within has anything to say about it. You might be wondering what's inside this fellow's safe-head. We got as close as we dared to take a few pictures and, frankly, we're not sure we want to know. Gallery: The Evil Within (Box Man) Seen@E3: The Evil Within's terrifying blockhead originally appeared on Joystiq on ...
  June 15, 2013 - Joystiq

Quotes

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• Samuel Johnson in ABC Online
  And Samuel Johnson said it more than 200 years ago: "no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
• Albert Schweitzer in Dakota Voice
  Overcoming innumerable difficulties, Dr. Albert Schweitzer wrote: "One day, in my despair, I threw myself into a chair in the consulting room and groaned out: 'What a blockhead I was to come out here to doctor savages like these!'"
• Alexander Pope in Merinews
  So also did Alexander Pope say it beautifully in an alliterative quote, "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, with loads of learned lumber in his head".