bonehead

bonehead
Hard-headed individual who acts in a manner to lead a casual observer to believe there is solid bone under the hair and no brains.

Licking that cold pipe was a real boneheaded move.


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  • Bonehead — can refer to: * Bonehead , a term used to describe someone with a fixed sense of purpose to the point of being foolish. * Bonehead , a term coined by David Letterman to describe someone who purposely appears in the background of live television.… …   Wikipedia

  • Bonehead — ist: eine Bezeichnung für einen rechtsextrem(istisch)en Skinhead ein US amerikanischer Hersteller von Helmen zum Fallschirmspringen, siehe Bonehead Composites ehemaliges Bandmitglied von Oasis – Paul Arthurs aka „Bonehead“ …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • bonehead — one head n. a person of low intelligence; a dunce; a blockhead; used deprecatingly to express a low opinion of someone s intelligence or capabilities. Syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bonehead — es un término proveniente del inglés, y que literalmente significa cabeza hueca . Normalmente, este término suele ser usado por el movimiento antifascista para designar a los skin heads de ideología ultraderechista, haciendo alusión burlesca al… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • bonehead — stupid person, 1908, from BONE (Cf. bone) + HEAD (Cf. head) (Cf. BLOCKHEAD (Cf. blockhead)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • bonehead — ► NOUN informal ▪ a stupid person …   English terms dictionary

  • bonehead — ☆ bonehead [bōn′hed΄ ] n. Slang a stupid person; fool …   English World dictionary

  • bonehead — I. noun Date: 1908 a stupid person ; numskull • boneheaded adjective • boneheadedness noun II. adjective Date: 1911 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a bonehead …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • bonehead — 1. n. a stupid or stubborn person. □ You are such a bonehead when it comes to buying cars. □ Don’t be a bonehead. Cooperate! 2. AND boneheaded od. stupid; stubborn. □ Of all the bone headed things to do! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • bonehead — UK [ˈbəʊnˌhed] / US [ˈboʊnˌhed] noun [countable] Word forms bonehead : singular bonehead plural boneheads offensive a stupid person …   English dictionary

  • bonehead — {n.}, {slang} An unusually dense or stupid person. * /John is such a bonehead small wonder he flunks all of his courses./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

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