ˈthick-head
One who or that which has a thick head.
1. a. One who is dull of intellect; a blockhead.
| 1824 H. Wilson Mem. I. ii. 41 ‘Don't you know,’ said thickhead, ‘..that I am blind as well as deaf?’ 1871 Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. (1883) I. 103 note, Ambitious thickhead. 1882 H. Seebohm Siberia in Asia 32 One of the greatest thickheads that I have ever met with. |
b. attrib. or adj. = thick-headed b.
| 1873 Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country ii. 235 Who ever has his speech in readiness For thick-head juvenility at fault. 1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard Fox 187 I'll shortly sow strife among Those thick-head folks. |
2. A name given in different localities to various birds: e.g. a. Any bird of the subfamily Pachycephalinæ, the Thick-headed Shrikes of the Australian region. b. A scansorial barbet of the subfamily Capitoninæ (Cent. Dict. 1891).
| 1837 Swainson Nat. Hist. Birds II. 250 Vireoninæ..Pachycephala..Thickhead. 1890 Victorian Stat., Game Act Sched. iii. (Morris), Thick-heads. [Close season] From the first day of August to the twentieth day of December. 1894 Newton Dict. Birds 621 Native-Thrush, Pachycephala olivacea (Thickhead). 1896 Ibid. 958 The name Thickhead is..given in other parts of the world to very different birds, and in South Africa especially to Œdicnemus capensis.., the Stone Curlew of that country. |