shallowpate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]shallowpate (plural shallowpates)
- (derogatory) One whose thinking is shallow or superficial.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- There were Mr. and Mrs. Merriman, a pretty, vivacious little woman in the thirties; her husband, a jovial fellow, something of a shallow-pate, who laughed a good deal at other people's witticisms, and had thereby made himself extremely popular.