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A skull so dense even your bad ideas need a running start.
means An obstinately stupid person — someone slow-witted or thick-headed.
from A straightforward 16th-century compound of 'block' (a solid chunk of wood, like a hat-maker's wooden head-mold or a chopping block) plus 'head' — the image being a head made of wood, good for nothing but holding its shape. Related insults followed the same logic: blockish, wooden-headed, thick as a plank — all trading on the idea that a block of wood can take a shape but never a thought.
- origin
- 18th century insult for wooden-headed stupidity
- shakespeare used it
- in title characterizing dull-witted fools
- synonym squad
- dunce, numbskull, dolt, all equally unflattering
- charlie brown link
- peanuts kids called him blockhead constantly