Fathead

Definition: Fathead

Fathead

Noun

1. A man who is a stupid fool.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fathead" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references)

Synonyms: Fathead

What kind of fathead would send us something like this (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Fate's Fathead (1934)

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

Books

• Acute Toxicities of Organic Chemicals to Fathead (reference)

• Subchronic Toxicities of Industrial & Agricultural Chemicals to Fathead Minnows, Pimephales Promelas (Subchronic Toxicity Test Series) (reference)

• The Adventures of Fathead, Smallhead, and Squarehead, (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Expressions using "fathead": Fathead minnow ♦ northern fathead minnow. Additional references.

Albanian

kokëtrashë (blockhead, clod, daft, dense, dim witted, dunderhead, fat, fat-witted, loggerhead, Looby, lubber-head, thick-head, thick-headed, thick-witted), budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, 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)

Arabic 

‏غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, drip, dull, dullard, empty headed, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent, wooden), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie). (various references)

Czech

zabednìnec (half wit, numskull). (various references)

French

imbécile (fat, fat-head), idiot (fat-head, fatuous). (various references)

Indonesian

orang dungu (dolt, dullard). (various references)

Italian

babbeo (dupe, fool, Looby, muff, muggins, simpleton, sucker). (various references)

Manx

kione-ching (headache). (various references)

Pig Latin

atheadfay.(various references)

Russian 

олух (boob, booby, dunderhead, fat-head, gander, gowk, jobbernowl, jolterhead, loggerhead, meathead, nitwit, numskull, owl, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, schmuck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, dope, driveler, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, gander, goof, jerk, loon, lout, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, tomfool, twit). (various references)

Spanish

torpe (awkward, blockish, blundering, bumbling, butterfingered, butterfingers, clumsy, duffer, dull, dullish, heavy, labored, laboured, left handed, left-hander, logy, lumberingly, rough, shiftless, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, stodgily, thick, torpid, wall eyed), imbécil (anile, dimwit, dolt, feeble minded, fool, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, mindless, moronic, prat, silly, stupid, twit, wrong, you imbecile). (various references)

Swedish

tjockskalle (clodpoll, nincompoop, thickhead), dumskalle (blockhead, dimwit, dolt, dope, dummy, gawky, imbecile, jackass, jay, lug, lump, meat ball, muggins, sap, saphead, twerp, twit, Wally, yo-yo). (various references)

Thai

คนโง่ (คำสแลง) (ass, dumbbell, git, muggins, noodle). (various references)

Turkish

mankafa (blockhead, bonehead, bone-headed, chump, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fat-headed, mutt, Numbskull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, purblind, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, saphead, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, soft, soft in the head, softhead, thickhead, thickheaded), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references)

Ukrainian

телепень (addle-head, ass, blockhead, boob, chuckle-head, chump, clod, cuckoo, dunderhead, gawk, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head), йолоп (banana-head, blunderbuss, boob, calf, caravan, chuckle-head, clod, clot, dimwit, gawk, loggerhead, mutt, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numskull, poop, saphead, zany). (various references)

Pimephales promelas. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fathead": fatheaded, fatheadedly, fatheadedness, fatheadednesses, fatheads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fathead" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faheem, Fatahland, fathed, Fatheya, Fathima, Fathman, Feithean, Fethard, Fithyan, Furhead. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hafted.

-2 letters: aahed, ahead, death, defat, fated, hated.

-3 letters: daft, data, date, deaf, deft, eath, fade, fate, feat, feta, haaf, hade, haed, haet, haft, hate, head, heat, heft, thae.

-4 letters: aah, aft, aha, ate, dah, eat, edh, eft, eta, eth, fad, fat, fed, feh, fet, had, hae, hat, het, tad, tae, tea, ted, the.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: fatheads, flathead.

+2 letters: fatheaded, flatheads.

+3 letters: fatherland, fatshedera, handfasted.

+4 letters: fatheadedly, fatherlands, fatshederas, featherhead, grandfather, halfhearted, handcrafted.

+5 letters: fainthearted, featherheads, fountainhead, grandfathers, handicrafter.