dinderhead

English

Noun

dinderhead (plural dinderheads)

1. (dialect) Southwestern English variant of dunderhead, a blockhead.
   • 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By a Devonshire Man‎^[1]:

     Lawks, doant be clummed by Babbin Enapp,
     'Sa bibbling, boostering, brinded chap,
     A dinderhead hadge-boar!

   • 1971, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society‎^[2], The Society:

     Being only a dim gentile I could not see the slightest connection between fish and guns, until, by now getting quite angry at my stupidity she roared in my ear "game-kipper (keeper), game-kipper, y'er dinderhead."