muddlehead

muddlehead

English

Etymology

muddle +‎ head

Noun

muddlehead (plural muddleheads)

1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
   • 1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events

     The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe

Related terms

• muddleheaded

References

• muddlehead in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913