chuckleheaded

English

Etymology

From chuckle +‎ headed.

Adjective

chuckleheaded (comparative more chuckleheaded, superlative most chuckleheaded)

1. stupid, idiotic

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid

   • 2008 April 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Novelist’s Crash Course on Terror”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In one of these chuckleheaded essays about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Martin Amis complains about the use of the shorthand 9/11: “My principal objection to the numbers is that they are numbers,” he writes in “The Second Plane.”

Derived terms

• chuckleheadedness