What Does the Word Knothead?
A Dull-Witted Blunderer: Dumbbell, Simpleton. What Does Knothead Mean? : a Dull-Witted Blunderer: Dumbbell, Simpleton. Where Did the Term Knothead Come from?...
: a dull-witted blunderer : dumbbell, simpleton.
What does knothead mean?
: a dull-witted blunderer : dumbbell, simpleton.
Where did the term knothead come from?
knothead (n.)
"stupid person," by 1899, American English, from knot (n.) + head (n.). Joe Knothead is the name of a character in an 1857 blackface satire publication.
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