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• n  a person who lacks good judgment

• Sirs: Just got through dousing Saphead Dowse PTI, June 13, when up pops saphead John Muller (PTI, June 20) who forgets that our popular American, Colonel Lindbergh, made the .
• This time, without naming him, he gives particular hell to Critic Andrew Field "a desperate saphead in the throes of a nightmare examination"who had the effrontery to read .
• This kind of pitch, with its view of the consumer as saphead, is still afl too prevalent.

• fool
• sap
• muggins
• tomfool

News & Articles

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• A Visit To The Dungeon Of Gillette's Castle And Scenic Whalebone Cove
  William Gillette had it right when he was writing his will regarding the future of his castle on the banks of the Connecticut River. He wrote his "castle in the sky" should never be in the "possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded."        
  Aug. 30, 2013 - Hartford Courant