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JOLTER-HEAD Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. archaic : a large or heavy head 2. now dialectal, chiefly England : dunce, booby, blockhead Word History Etymology jolter-head alteration of jolt-head.
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JOLTERHEAD definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
noun obsolete a stupid or foolish person Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
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jolter head - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
jolter head (plural jolter heads). A large, clumsy head; a blockhead; a dunce. 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Bleak House ...
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jolter-headed
jolter-headed, a. (ˈdʒəʊltərˌhɛdɪd) Also dial. cholter-. [f. prec. + -ed2.] = jolt-headed.1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) VI. xxvi. 111 Half-a-dozen jolter-headed crop-eared boys. 1765 Treat. Dom. Pigeons 69 The Dutch tumbler is..larger, often feather-leg'd, and more joulter-headed. 1821 Scott Kenil...
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jolter-headed, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the adjective jolter-headed is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for jolter-headed is from 1748, in the writing ...
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jolter-headed, adj. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
also jolt-head, jolt-headed, jolter-pated [jolterhead n.] stupid, foolish. a ... jolter-headed of juveniles? 1842, [US], Wkly Rake (NY) 24 Sept. n.p. ...
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chowder-headed
chowder-headed, a. dial. = jolter-headed.1819 Scott Lett. 15 Apr. in Lockhart, I hesitate a little about Raeburn..[he] has twice already made a very chowder-headed person of me. 1851 H. Melville Whale xv. 73 What's that stultifying saying about chouder-headed people?
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JOLTER-HEADER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. archaic : having a large or heavy head 2. now dialectal, chiefly England : stupid, dull The Ultimate Dictionary Awaits
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jolterheaded - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
jolterheaded (comparative more jolterheaded, superlative most jolterheaded). (archaic) foolish; stupid. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid.
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jolterhead, n. meanings, etymology and more
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun jolterhead. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status. OED is ...
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jolter-headed - definition and meaning - Wordnik
jolter-headed: Having a stupid head; stupid; doltish.
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Jack Sheppard (novel)
In a February 1840 letter to Richard Hengist Horne, he wrote:
I am by some jolter-headed enemies most unjustly and untruly charged with having written Unto these jolter-heads and their intensely concentrated humbug, I shall take an early opportunity of temperately replying.
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cholter
cholt, cholter dial. variants of jolt, jolter in jolt-headed, jolter-headed, q.v.
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May 1980
It had been invented by a team headed by Toru Iwatani and was originally branded as "Puck Man" when it was distributed in Japan in July. unfavorable, with one noting that the film "takes two and a half hours to go nowhere" and another commenting that "the film is too grandiose to be the jolter
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jolt
▪ I. jolt, v. (dʒəʊlt) Also 6–7 ioult. [Etymology obscure: see Note below.] † 1. trans. To butt or push with the head, elbow, or other blunt part; to give a push or knock to; to nudge. Obs.1611 Cotgr., Coudéer, to iog or ioult with the elbow. Ibid., Tabuter, to ioult, butt, or push. 1778 F. Burney D...
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