mullet-head
[? f. mullet1.]
1. U.S. A freshwater fish with a large flat head.
| 1866 Harper's Mag. Sept. 537/1 Dat fish is a mullet-head; it hain't got any brains. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undevel. West v. 102 There is a fish called the mullethead, that cannot be intoxicated by any amount of liquor. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny vi. 110 That fish, my son, is called a mullet-head: it has got no brains. |
2. [Cf. mull-head a dull, stupid fellow (E.D.D.).] A stupid person. So mullet-headed a.
| 1857 Quindaro (Kansas) Chindowan 6 June 1/3 The men, for the most part sleepy, ignorant, mullet-headed looking wretches. 1884 ‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxxix. 370 They're so confiding and mullet-headed they don't take notice of nothing at all. 1916 Dialect Notes IV. 278 Look at that mullet-head of a Sam Smith. He don't know beans. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1970) i. i. 30 Hey, you mullet heads! Get out de way. 1942 Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §150/5 Stupid,..mullet-headed. Ibid. 433/3 Stupid person,..mullet-head. |