There is TOM, the dunderhead, who is always sleepy and he will put that down about him.

"Mooncalf" (originally the name for an imperfectly formed foetus) was used as a term of reproach, like dodypol, nincompoop, ninny, dunderhead, &c. Sc. trifling fellow, noodle.

bull head, dunderhead, addlehead^, blockhead, dullhead^, loggerhead, jolthead^, jolterhead^, beetlehead^, beetlebrain, grosshead^, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead^; numbskull, thickskull^; lackbrain^, shallowbrain^; dimwit, halfwit, lackwit^; dunderpate^; lunkhead sawney [U.S.], gowk^; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube

It is particularly unpleasant to hear a bullet come singing and booming down the line from some excited dunderhead on the far left or right.

Let 'em go for dunderheads as they are.... I congratulate you on your sound conscience with regard to the affair that you wot of.

The comical sketch of their rhetoric in "Salmagundi" is literally true:"Every day have these slangwhangers made furious attacks on each other and upon their respective adherents, discharging their heavy artillery, consisting of large sheets loaded with scoundrel, villain, liar, rascal, numskull, nincompoop, dunderhead, wiseacre, blockhead, jackass."

Take, for instance, the supply of London with good water, which the most utter dunderhead must admit to be most desirable; yet the influence of vested interests is so strong that its two millions of inhabitants seem destined to be poisoned for centuries, and the lanes and courts will, in all probability, continue as arid as the desert during the same period.

The illustrious Dunderheads.

The illustrious Dunderheads.

The illustrious Dunderheads.

The illustrious Dunderheads. SEE Stout, Rex, ed.

The illustrious Dunderheads.

The illustrious Dunderheads.

The illustrious Dunderheads.

The illustrious Dunderheads. SEE Stout, Rex, ed.

I mean your Grammar, O thou Dunderhead would'st thou be ever in thy Wife's Syntaxis?

I mean your Gammer, O thou dunderhead!

I learned six times as much as some of the dunderheads that got sheepskins, and the professors knew it, but they do not dare to put their seal on anybody's education unless it is mixed in exact proportionsso much Latin, so much Greek, so much mathematics.

" "You unimaginative dunderhead!

But I was called away, and so I had to leave it to those dunderheads at the garage.