pumpkin-headed
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]pumpkin-headed (comparative more pumpkin-headed, superlative most pumpkin-headed)
- (slang, derogatory, dated) Stupid; foolish; fatheaded.
- 1827 May 11, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 3, column 1:
- The parties made no reply, but were going forward, when the prisoner again called out, at the same time rushing from his house with a gun in his hand, exclaiming “you pumpkin headed b----, if you do not stop and tell me who you are, I'll blow your brains out,” at the same moment pulling the trigger, when the priming flashed in the pan.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 161:
- “Take that, for being a pumpkin-headed old shellback.”