" "Talented Lunkhead, you mean," said this interestin' femail; "you'd look sweet editin' a noose paper.

I was a great big, strong, clumsy lunkhead, an' the only thing I could do, even in a one-horse college, was to play base ball, so they kep' me along jest for that.

It is all very well to try to do old school friends a spot of good, but I could not but feel that in espousing the cause of a lunkhead capable of mucking things up as Gussie had done, I had taken on a contract almost too big for human consumption.

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

[Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon

My horse was so scared that he went up the other side on the jump, and before I could turn around to find out what it all meant, you lunkheads came down on me with the request to oblige you by throwing up my hands, which I will see you hanged before I'll do.

I sat scratching my head and gazing about me like a lunkhead while Boyd finished shoeing a horse, and had begun sharpening the lay of a breaking-plowwhen up rode Pitt Bushyager on one of the horses he and his gang had had in the Grove of Destiny back beyond Waterloo.

"My name's Smith, you lunkhead!"

I had the pure lunkhead pride.

I was a lummox, a lunkhead, a lubber, a fool, a sapheadI was everything that was awkward and clumsy and thumb-hand-sided!