blockheaded, a.
(ˈblɒkˌhɛdɪd)
[f. block-head (sense 1) + -ed2.]
Having a ‘block-head’; obtuse of intellect, dull, stupid. Of persons (rarely their productions). Hence ˌblockˈheadedness.
| 1549 Olde Erasm. Par. Ephes. Prol. C iij, Blockeheaded asses..doublefaced frendes. 1594 Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xiii. (1596) 233 He is block-headed and dull. 1657 Flatman Cordial 1/2 See, how the block headed Multitude wonders! 1702 Eng. Theophrast. 377 Old men are only great block-headed boys with beards. 1860 C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret viii. (1880) 252 My father said I was too block-headed to beat navigation into. |
| 1716 M. Davies in Ath. Brit. II. 168 The loudest piece of blockheadedness, and the last shift of Dunces. |