ˈdunder-headed, a.
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
Ponderously stupid, thick-headed.
| 1825 Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 37 The poor scolded broken-hearted boy..becomes dunder-headed and dull for all his life-time. 1836 Wakley Sp. in Ho. Com. 15 Mar., Any illiterate and dunder-headed police officer. 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem. xlv, He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice. |
Hence ˈdunderˌheadedness, gross stupidity.
| 1870 Sat. Rev. 15 Jan. 80/2 This dunderheadedness of crime which is brought home to our senses by reports like these. |