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BLUNDERHEAD

Definition: BLUNDERHEAD

BLUNDERHEAD

Noun

1. A stupid, blundering fellow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Blunderhead \Blun"der*head`\, noun. [Blunder head.]. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: BLUNDERHEAD

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bungler

Noun: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: BLUNDERHEAD

Language Translations for "BLUNDERHEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тъпак (ass, blockhead, dimwit, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dunce, dunderhead, fool, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loon, lug, lummox, lunkhead, sheep's head, thick, tomnoddy, witling, yo-yo). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tökfilkó (blockhead, cabbage-head, chuckle, dimwit, dolt, dunce, gaby, goof, goon, goop, jobbernowl, jolterhead, loggerhead, loghead, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, sap, silly billy, simp, simple sammy, softy, tom-noddy). (various references)

   

Manx

  

staghyl (awkward, awkward person, blunderer), lutchynagh (blunderer, blundering, booby, bovine, bungler, bungling, dope, nincompoop, ninny). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

underheadblay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

netot (addle-head, blinkard, bone head, duffer, dunderhead, lunkhead, muddle-headed, stupid). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, dolt, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, goon, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estúpido (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, anserine, asinine, blockhead, bone head, brainless, coot, crass, dense, dim witted, donkey, dull, dullard, idiot, idiotic, lame brain, lumpish, obtuse, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, senseless, soft, stupe, stupid). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

drummel (ape, boob, booby, churl, clod, clodpoll, clown, gawk, hobbledehoy, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, swab). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дурень (ass, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người ngu ngốc (chuckle-head, cretin, fat-head, feather-brain, feather-head, log-head), người khờ dại (babe, boob, fool, gaby, goosey, greenhorn, half-wit, imbecile, juggins, nincompoop, rattle-brain, scapegrace, sheep's-head, silly, spooney, spoony). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BLUNDERHEAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-h-l-n-r-u"

-1 letter: unheralded.

-2 letters: blundered, endurable, laundered, rehandled.

-3 letters: adherend, belauded, bluehead, burdened, hardened, heralded, rehandle, unbeared, unhealed, unleaded.

-4 letters: adhered, bearded, bladder, blander, bleared, blended, blender, blunder, branded, breaded, bundled, bundler, dandler, daunder, deluder, denuder, durable, enabled, enabler, endured, halberd, handled, handler, huddler, hundred, hurdled, ladened, launder, learned, lurdane, nebulae, nebular, reblend, redhead, unheard, unladed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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