grout-headed, a. Obs. or dial.
[f. as prec.: see headed.]
Thick-headed, stupid.
| 1578 Florio 1st Fruites 58 b, Alwayes there were, are, and I beleeve wyl be certaine groutheaded, yl manered, and to say better, envious. 1593 ‘Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie A 4, The groutheaded Græcians, especiallie the annointed Achiues, I meane the Beziladistes. 1607 T. Walkington Opt. Glass xii. (1664) 125 Stoically visaged, like Grout⁓headed Arcesilaus. 1694 Motteux Rabelais v. xix. (1737) 83 We are a silly sort of Grout-headed Lobcocks. 1847–78 Halliwell, Groutheaded, stupidly noisy. Sussex. Also, large or great-headed, stupid. |