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Dunderhead   Listen
noun
Dunderhead  n.  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.






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"Dunderhead" Quotes from Famous Books



... am in love with you, Chirpy?" he asked her very softly. "Am I such a dunderhead that ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... the fantastic meteorological turn of events, Bureau Chief Botts dangled the forecast sheet before Johnny Sloman's bloodshot eyes and barked, "It's all over the country by now, you dunderhead!" Then, as an ...
— Summer Snow Storm • Adam Chase

... bags brought down!" cried Mr. Downes. "This is an outrage. And let me tell you, you dunderhead," he added to James, "this will cost ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster

... feminine subtlety, was at fault; but who was he to appreciate the repressive influence of a practical-minded convent friend, quickly formative and loudly assertive of opinions, on an impressionable lady awakening to curiosities? He was just a dunderhead, like any one of us—just as much as the most eminent feminine psychologist alive—which is saying a good deal. So he drove away disappointed, the sobriety of the chestnut's return trot through Morebury contrasting ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke

... again, Tom Bull!" cries my uncle, with a sniff and wrathful twitch of the lip. "There you goes again, you dunderhead—jumpin' ...
— The Cruise of the Shining Light • Norman Duncan



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