bonehead

bonehead
Someone who is stubborn, thick-skulled, and stupid.

Musical Potterism, for example, is everywhere rampant. It bobs up in music criticisms and peeps forth in daily intercourse. "Give me good old ," cries the classical Potterite, "and keep your modern kickshaws. Mozart is good enough for me!" Alas, we think Mozart is too good for this bonehead, who no doubt prefers a Broadway comic opera to .


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  • Bonehead — can refer to: * Bonehead , a term used to describe someone with a fixed sense of purpose to the point of being foolish. * Bonehead , a term coined by David Letterman to describe someone who purposely appears in the background of live television.… …   Wikipedia

  • Bonehead — ist: eine Bezeichnung für einen rechtsextrem(istisch)en Skinhead ein US amerikanischer Hersteller von Helmen zum Fallschirmspringen, siehe Bonehead Composites ehemaliges Bandmitglied von Oasis – Paul Arthurs aka „Bonehead“ …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • bonehead — one head n. a person of low intelligence; a dunce; a blockhead; used deprecatingly to express a low opinion of someone s intelligence or capabilities. Syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bonehead — es un término proveniente del inglés, y que literalmente significa cabeza hueca . Normalmente, este término suele ser usado por el movimiento antifascista para designar a los skin heads de ideología ultraderechista, haciendo alusión burlesca al… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • bonehead — stupid person, 1908, from BONE (Cf. bone) + HEAD (Cf. head) (Cf. BLOCKHEAD (Cf. blockhead)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • bonehead — ► NOUN informal ▪ a stupid person …   English terms dictionary

  • bonehead — ☆ bonehead [bōn′hed΄ ] n. Slang a stupid person; fool …   English World dictionary

  • bonehead — I. noun Date: 1908 a stupid person ; numskull • boneheaded adjective • boneheadedness noun II. adjective Date: 1911 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a bonehead …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • bonehead — 1. n. a stupid or stubborn person. □ You are such a bonehead when it comes to buying cars. □ Don’t be a bonehead. Cooperate! 2. AND boneheaded od. stupid; stubborn. □ Of all the bone headed things to do! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • bonehead — UK [ˈbəʊnˌhed] / US [ˈboʊnˌhed] noun [countable] Word forms bonehead : singular bonehead plural boneheads offensive a stupid person …   English dictionary

  • bonehead — {n.}, {slang} An unusually dense or stupid person. * /John is such a bonehead small wonder he flunks all of his courses./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

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