logger-headed, a.
(ˈlɒgəhɛdɪd)
Also 8 lugger-headed.
[f. loggerhead (or parasynthetically f. logger n.2) + -ed2.]
1. Thick-headed, stupid.
| 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 128 You logger-headed and vnpollisht groomes. 1643 J. White 1st Cent. Scandal. Priests 44 A company of logger headed fellowes. 1667 Cotton Scarron. iv. 107 Like a Logger-headed Lubber. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son I. 73 You logger-headed fellow. |
2. Of animals: Having a large head.
logger-headed duck = logger-head 6 b (
c).
| 1653 Walton Angler ii. 62 Oh! it is a great loggerheaded Chub! 1845 Darwin Voy. Nat. ix. (1852) 200 In these [Falkland] Islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera)..is very abundant. 1861 Zoologist XIX. 7603 The loggerheaded duck, whose wings..are used as propelling fins in the water. |
| transf. 1728 Vanbr. & Cibber Prov. Husb. ii. i, A great Lugger-headed Cart, with Wheels as thick as a brick Wall. |