chowderheaded

chowderheaded

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  • chowderheaded — adjective see chowderhead …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • chowderheaded — adjective Stupid; foolish; lacking in common sense. We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head? What’s that stultifying saying about chowder headed… …   Wiktionary

  • chowderheaded — chow·der·head·ed …   English syllables

  • chowderheaded — adjective see chowderhead …   Useful english dictionary

  • chowderhead — chowderheaded, adj. /chow deuhr hed /, n. Slang. a stupid person; blockhead. [1825 35; cf. Brit. dial. (Lancashire) chowterhead, phon. var. of CHOLTERHEAD, dial. var. of JOLTERHEAD, earlier jolthead, equiv. to jolt , jolter (prob. akin to JOLT,… …   Universalium

  • chowderhead — noun Etymology: alteration of dialect jolterhead blockhead Date: 1833 dolt, blockhead • chowderheaded adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • chowder-headed — adjective Alternative spelling of chowderheaded …   Wiktionary

  • blockheaded — Synonyms and related words: beetleheaded, blockish, blunderheaded, boneheaded, cabbageheaded, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clodpated, dumbheaded, dunderheaded, fatheaded, jolterheaded, joltheaded, knuckleheaded, lunkheaded, muttonheaded,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • blunderheaded — Synonyms and related words: all thumbs, awkward, beetleheaded, blockheaded, blundering, boneheaded, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cabbageheaded, careless, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clodpated, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • knuckleheaded — Synonyms and related words: beetleheaded, blockheaded, blunderheaded, boneheaded, cabbageheaded, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clodpated, dumbheaded, dunderheaded, fatheaded, jolterheaded, joltheaded, lunkheaded, muttonheaded, nitwitted,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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