Noun
A stupid person.
Usage- Colloquial
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[S]o I think, blockheads, ſaid Manfred; what is it has ſcared you thus?
[…]like a conceited mechanic in a village ale-house, you would set down every one who differs from you as an ignorant blockhead[…]
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"What a blockhead that Charlie Brown is!"
Let me tell you something, blockhead: anyone who is stupid enough to do what you did deserves—
Not all of them, by no means anywhere close to all of them, just the most notable blockheads among them — three altogether, two freshmen and one sophomore, all of whom were among the first to be expelled the next day — masturbated into pairs of stolen panties[…]
Verb
To perform as a human blockhead.
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Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating.
To behave in a stupid manner.
Usage- Rare
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Two years' blockading made fair Malta ours: A noble struggle! -- yet 't is thought (at Rading) That Britain's island shews superior pow'rs, To bear, and to survive, two years blockheading !
I have blockheading and boxing enough at Master Lovell's, I won't have it repeated here; and in a great passion, I threw the Virgil at his head, hit him in the face, and bruised his lip, and ran away.
The operation of blockheading is much the same as that of beheading, which Charles I underwent. In both the head is severed from the body. The body goes around without benefit of head. The victim becomes a Headless Horseman, or that more common figure a Headless Pedestrian. In our day the operation is often done not on an executioner's block but on Paradise Avenue in Suburbia Manor.
Noun
a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
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