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beetle-headed
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See also: beetleheaded
English
Adjective
beetle-headed (comparative more beetle-headed, superlative most beetle-headed)
- (obsolete) Mentally dull; stupid.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear’d knave!
References
- “beetle-headed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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