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Definition of Chucklehead
1. n. A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.
Definition of Chucklehead
1. Noun. (informal) a stupid or clumsy person ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) A coastal rockfish of California, Sebastodes chlorostictus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chucklehead
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chucklehead
Literary usage of Chucklehead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1814)
"Bullock Smithy and the neighbourhood, who had the misfortune to fall rather short
of sixteen stone ; it was supported by all the weight of chucklehead, ..."
2. History of Oregon by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1888)
"The attack was made at daybreak, and the battle lasted four hours and a half,
when chucklehead being killed the Indians withdrew. ..."
3. History of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Frances Fuller Victor, Alfred Bates (1888)
"The attack was made at daybreak, and the battle lasted four hours and a half,
when chucklehead being killed the Indians withdrew. ..."
4. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1898)
"... viz., "chucklehead and Girdle hat," and knows that " chucklehead" or "
pluff-cheeks " was Mr. Robert Fraser. A near relative of the writer, ..."
5. With Walt Whitman in Camden by Horace Traubel (1908)
"... is the obstinate consideration of the work with that Stratford chucklehead
and his chucklehead biography. If we had no notion whatever of the author, ..."
6. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"There wasn'ta human being in this town but knew that that boy was a perfect
chucklehead; perfect dummy; just a stupid ass, as you may say. ..."
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