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Hence: A blockhead; a lout.
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A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead.
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A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
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), n. A blockhead; a dolt.
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A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.
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A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.
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G. goff a blockhead, Gr.
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A lazy person; a blockhead.
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Half"-wit' (-w&ibreve;t'), n. A foolish person; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
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A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.
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A dunce; a blockhead.
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), n. [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead.
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A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
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A dull, silent person; a blockhead.
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A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.
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A dolt; a blockhead.
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Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead.
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There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
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A fool; a blockhead.
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A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
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A log; a block; a blockhead.
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We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
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), n. A dunce; a blockhead.
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-- Swine's head , a dolt; a blockhead.
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"Peace, blockhead!" said the Prince angrily; "if he was going to escape, how should he come on this side?
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"So I think, blockheads," said Manfred; "what is it has scared you thus?"
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"Grant me patience!" said Manfred; "these blockheads distract me.
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The blockhead mustn't leave the law at present.
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One burglary after another, and these Scotch blockheads without a man to show for it.
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Do you suppose, you blockheads, that I am blind?
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The mistake is, that the persons by whom this is perceived, are disposed to set aside these pupils as blockheads, and unsusceptible of any species of ingenuity.
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Hence it is that we are taught, by a judgment everlastingly repeated, that the majority of our kind are predestinated blockheads.
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He was the only one living besides Mother who knew that we had saved a thousand guilders, so I rose up that night and buried the money--blockhead that I was ever to suspect an old friend!"
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I can give you his description in three words - an insensate, ugly, stupid blockhead.
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They would watch the poor creatures at their meals, making uncivil remarks about their food, and their manner of eating; they would laugh at their simple notions and provincial expressions, till some of them scarcely durst venture to speak; they would call the grave elderly men and women old fools and silly old blockheads to their faces: and all this without meaning to offend.
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Ostensibly she went to get some shades of Berlin wool, at a tolerably respectable shop that was chiefly supported by the ladies of the vicinity: really - I trust there is no breach of charity in supposing that she went with the idea of meeting either with the Rector himself, or some other admirer by the way; for as we went along, she kept wondering 'what Hatfield would do or say, if we met him,' &c. &c.; as we passed Mr. Green's park-gates, she 'wondered whether he was at home - great stupid blockhead'; as Lady Meltham's carriage passed us, she 'wondered what Mr. Harry was doing this fine day'; and then began to abuse his elder brother for being 'such a fool as to get married and go and live in London.'
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he's not quite such a stupid blockhead as I thought him!'
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"Hold your tongue, you blockhead," warned his friend, too excited to be polite, "or you'll spoil the whole business!"
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If he could only get hold of that blockhead, the judge's groom, who was violating the law about fire-arms, he would give him an exhibition in athletics which he would not soon forget; but, being for the moment deprived of this pleasure, he knew of nothing better to do than to dodge through the nearest street-door, and implore the protection of the very first individual he might meet.
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Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, Blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, Shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, Sniffler, snuffler, wailer, weeper, Earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil!
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But the loyalists were busy, particularly that portion of them, which took the name of Scopholites, after one Scophol, a militia Colonel, whom Moultrie describes as an "illiterate, stupid, noisy blockhead".
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I never have nothing to do with blockheads, unless I can't awoid it (ironically), and a dead bear's about as much use to me as I could be to a dead bear.'
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I never have nothing to do with blockheads, unless I can't awoid it (ironically), and a dead bear's about as much use to me as I could be to a dead bear.'
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What does your blockhead father when he and Mrs Rudge have laid their heads together, but goes there when he ought to be abed, makes interest with his friend the doorkeeper, slips him on a mask and domino, and mixes with the masquers.'
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'He was quite right,' returned his master, 'and you're a blockhead, possessing no judgment or discretion whatever.
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In the latter respect he was beaten by all the blockheads of the school, but in his adornments he stood alone.
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Though Sir Walter Scott, when at Edinburgh College, went by the name of "The Greek Blockhead," he was, notwithstanding his lameness, a remarkably healthy youth: he could spear a salmon with the best fisher on the Tweed, and ride a wild horse with any hunter in Yarrow.
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"If I give up those three hairs I-I'm just a blockhead."
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Even poor little Clarence, the born idiot of the family, is the most agreeable and most endearing blockhead!
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"What blockheads they are!"
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"But, you blockhead," said Cornelius, "will you really kill me?"
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Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chemist, the attorney, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker; the whole round of crafts and trades, the schoolmaster excepted; and although schoolmasters, as a race, were the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Yorkshire schoolmasters were the lowest and most rotten round in the whole ladder.
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'I am in no mood for more noise and riot,' thought Nicholas, 'and yet, do what I will, I shall have an altercation with this honest blockhead, and perhaps a blow or two from yonder staff.'
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Why, what a dull blockhead this fellow must be!
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'You know that, you blockhead.'
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How many proud painted dames would have fawned and smiled, and how many spendthrift blockheads done me lip-service to my face and cursed me in their hearts, while I turned that ten thousand pounds into twenty!
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For it would be devilish creditable, Tom (I'm quite in earnest, I give you my word), to have a man of your information about one, instead of some ordinary blockhead.
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'Give it her yourself, you blockhead!' cried she, recoiling with a spring from between us.
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Stupid blockhead that I was!
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CLAIRVOYANT, n. A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.
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While Don Quixote was saying this, Cardenio allowed his head to fall upon his breast, and seemed plunged in deep thought; and though twice Don Quixote bade him go on with his story, he neither looked up nor uttered a word in reply; but after some time he raised his head and said, "I cannot get rid of the idea, nor will anyone in the world remove it, or make me think otherwise--and he would be a blockhead who would hold or believe anything else than that that arrant knave Master Elisabad made free with Queen Madasima."
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"Blockhead!" said Don Quixote at this, "it is no business or concern of knights-errant to inquire whether any persons in affliction, in chains, or oppressed that they may meet on the high roads go that way and suffer as they do because of their faults or because of their misfortunes.
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"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" said Don Quixote; "where hast thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built in alleys without an outlet?"
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"Our guest has broken out on our hands," said Don Lorenzo to himself at this point; "but, for all that, he is a glorious madman, and I should be a dull blockhead to doubt it."
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Dost thou not see--shortsighted being that thou art, and unlucky mortal that I am!--that if they perceive thee to be a coarse clown or a dull blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or swindler?
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This Don Quixote, or Don Simpleton, or whatever his name is, cannot, I imagine, be such a blockhead as your excellence would have him, holding out encouragement to him to go on with his vagaries and follies."
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Pious, well-meant reproof requires a different demeanour and arguments of another sort; at any rate, to have reproved me in public, and so roughly, exceeds the bounds of proper reproof, for that comes better with gentleness than with rudeness; and it is not seemly to call the sinner roundly blockhead and booby, without knowing anything of the sin that is reproved.
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To which Merlin made answer, "The devil, Sancho, is a blockhead and a great scoundrel; I sent him to look for your master, but not with a message from Montesinos but from myself; for Montesinos is in his cave expecting, or more properly speaking, waiting for his disenchantment; for there's the tail to be skinned yet for him; if he owes you anything, or you have any business to transact with him, I'll bring him to you and put him where you choose; but for the present make up your mind to consent to this penance, and believe me it will be very good for you, for soul as well for body--for your soul because of the charity with which you perform it, for your body because I know that you are of a sanguine habit and it will do you no harm to draw a little blood."
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Don Quixote, my master, if I am to believe what I hear in these parts, is a madman of some sense, and a droll blockhead, and I am no way behind him.
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How dost thou apply them, thou blockhead?
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And why should I give them to you if I had them, you knave and blockhead?
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If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead."
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Who asked thee to meddle in my affairs, or to inquire whether I am a wise man or a blockhead?
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Don Quixote did as he recommended, for it struck him that Sancho's reasoning was more like a philosopher's than a blockhead's, and said he, "Sancho, if thou wilt do for me what I am going to tell thee my ease of mind would be more assured and my heaviness of heart not so great; and it is this; to go aside a little while I am sleeping in accordance with thy advice, and, making bare thy carcase to the air, to give thyself three or four hundred lashes with Rocinante's reins, on account of the three thousand and odd thou art to give thyself for the disenchantment of Dulcinea; for it is a great pity that the poor lady should be left enchanted through thy carelessness and negligence."
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On the one hand they regarded him as a man of wit and sense, and on the other he seemed to them a maundering blockhead, and they could not make up their minds whereabouts between wisdom and folly they ought to place him.
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Thou art mad; and if thou wert so by thyself, and kept thyself within thy madness, it would not be so bad; but thou hast the gift of making fools and blockheads of all who have anything to do with thee or say to thee.
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Get thee home, blockhead, and see after thy affairs, and thy wife and children, and give over these fooleries that are sapping thy brains and skimming away thy wits."
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"By God, your worship is right," replied the Castilian; "for to advise this good man is to kick against the pricks; still for all that it fills me with pity that the sound wit they say the blockhead has in everything should dribble away by the channel of his knight-errantry; but may the bad luck your worship talks of follow me and all my descendants, if, from this day forth, though I should live longer than Methuselah, I ever give advice to anybody even if he asks me for it."
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"What is that blockhead bringing with him now?"
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I could not help thinking that the old man relied a little too much on the aid of allies, one of whom was a coward, another a blockhead, and the third an invalid.
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2 A.M. Astigmatism The Coal Picker Storm-Racked Convalescence Patience Apology A Petition A Blockhead Stupidity Irony Happiness The Last Quarter of the Moon A Tale of Starvation The Foreigner Absence A Gift The Bungler Fool's Money Bags Miscast I Miscast II Anticipation Vintage The Tree of Scarlet Berries Obligation The Taxi The Giver of Stars The Temple Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success In Answer to a Request Poppy Seed The Great Adventure of Max Breuck Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok Clear, with Light, Variable Winds The Basket In a Castle The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde The Exeter Road The Shadow The Forsaken Late September The Pike The Blue Scarf White and Green Aubade Music A Lady In a Garden A Tulip Garden Sword Blades And Poppy Seed A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran and hid among the staves Of an old wharf.
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A Blockhead Before me lies a mass of shapeless days, Unseparated atoms, and I must Sort them apart and live them.
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Notes: After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok: Originally: After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók: A Blockhead: "There are non, ever.
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The whole of that family are the most solemnly conceited and consummate blockheads!
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One of his drunken exclamations was, "And the jade doats on your youth, you raw blockhead!
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But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
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their Governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.--Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still as of old, 'what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!'
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Now consider that we have the valuation of our own deserts ourselves, and what a fund of Self-conceit there is in each of us,--do you wonder that the balance should so often dip the wrong way, and many a Blockhead cry: See there, what a payment; was ever worthy gentleman so used!--I tell thee, Blockhead, it all comes of thy Vanity; of what thou _fanciest_ those same deserts of thine to be.
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And then how your Blockhead (_Dummkopf_) studies not their Meaning; but simply whether they are well or ill cut, what he calls Moral or Immoral!
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"Why don't you run a race for them?" suggests Putraka; and, as the two blockheads start furiously off, he quietly picks up the bowl, ties on the shoes, and flies away!
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She was tired of hoaxing that blockhead of a Tatan Nene with a story to the effect that the Parisian dairywomen were wont to fabricate eggs with a mixture of paste and saffron.
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With us, you see, the case is quite different:-we are all ups and downs in this matter;-you are a great genius;-or 'tis fifty to one, Sir, you are a great dunce and a blockhead;-not that there is a total want of intermediate steps,-no,-we are not so irregular as that comes to;-but the two extremes are more common, and in a greater degree in this unsettled island, where nature, in her gifts and dispositions of this kind, is most whimsical and capricious; fortune herself not being more so in the bequest of her goods and chattels than she.
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When my father was gone with this about a month, there was scarce a phaenomenon of stupidity or of genius, which he could not readily solve by it;-it accounted for the eldest son being the greatest blockhead in the family.-Poor devil, he would say,-he made way for the capacity of his younger brothers.-It unriddled the observations of drivellers and monstrous heads,-shewing a priori, it could not be otherwise,-unless...
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I have cut my thumb quite across to the very bone-curse the fellow-if there was not another man-midwife within fifty miles-I am undone for this bout-I wish the scoundrel hang'd-I wish he was shot-I wish all the devils in hell had him for a blockhead-!
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Now for the sake of an experiment, and for the clearer illustrating this matter-let us for a moment take off one of these two curious ornaments (I care not which) from the point or pinnacle of the chair it now stands on-nay, don't laugh at it,-but did you ever see, in the whole course of your lives, such a ridiculous business as this has made of it?-Why, 'tis as miserable a sight as a sow with one ear; and there is just as much sense and symmetry in the one as in the other:-do-pray, get off your seats only to take a view of it,-Now would any man who valued his character a straw, have turned a piece of work out of his hand in such a condition?-nay, lay your hands upon your hearts, and answer this plain question, Whether this one single knob, which now stands here like a blockhead by itself, can serve any purpose upon earth, but to put one in mind of the want of the other?-and let me farther ask, in case the chair was your own, if you would not in your consciences think, rather than be as it is, that it would be ten times better without any knob at all?
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And here without staying for my reply, shall I be called as many blockheads, numsculs, doddypoles, dunderheads, ninny-hammers, goosecaps, joltheads, nincompoops, and sh..t-a-beds-and other unsavoury appellations, as ever the cake-bakers of Lerne cast in the teeth of King Garangantan's shepherds-And I'll let them do it, as Bridget said, as much as they please; for how was it possible they should foresee the necessity I was under of writing the 84th chapter of my book, before the 77th, &c?
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