muddlehead

English

Etymology

From muddle +‎ head.

Noun

muddlehead (plural muddleheads)

1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
   • 1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events:

     The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe

   • 1978 April 1, John Lauritsen, “Praising Mitzel”, in Gay Community News, page 4:

     A reactionary muddlehead who waves the feminist banner does not thereby cease to be a reactionary muddlehead.

Related terms

• muddleheaded

References

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