beetle-headed

See also: beetleheaded

English

Adjective

beetle-headed (comparative more beetle-headed, superlative most beetle-headed)

1. (obsolete) Mentally dull; stupid.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid

   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear’d knave!

References

• “beetle-headed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.