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Definition of Fatheaded
1. Adjective. (used informally) stupid.
Similar to: Stupid
Definition of Fatheaded
1. Adjective. Characteristic of a fathead; stupid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fatheaded
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatheaded
Literary usage of Fatheaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"... downright, fatheaded Public will see nothing vexatiously sought for to repair
them—-this I do not pretend to opposition, good opportunities romantically ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"54. (2) To fade ; to lose colour. Pr. Pare. fatheaded. Stupid. Var. dial PAT-HEN.
The wild orache. Var. dial FATHER. To impute anything, or lay a ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"fatheaded, adj. Stupid. FAT-HEN, ». The wild orache. FATHER-JOHNSON, ». A schoolboy's
term for the finis or end of a book. FATHER-LONGLEGS, ». ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"In the end we became fatheaded, and not only lost all intellectual consciousness
of what we were doing, ..."
5. The New York Times Current History of the European War (1915)
"... provided by our curates at £70 a year, or our journalists at a penny a line,
or commercial moralists with axes to grind. In the end we became fatheaded, ..."
6. The European Journals of William Maclure by William Maclure, John S. Doskey (1988)
"On all occasions he lugs in some satire on the French Revolution, which he knows
no more about than many of the fatheaded Doctors of that antiquated ..."
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