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Loggerhead   /lˈɑgərhˌɛd/   Listen
Loggerhead

noun
1.
A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.  Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead.
2.
Very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas.  Synonyms: Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle.



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"Loggerhead" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same thing and kept up the pretence; whereupon Nicostratus bade him come down. Accordingly he came down and his master said to him, 'Now, what sayst thou thou sawest?' 'Methinketh,' answered he, 'you take me for a lackwit or a loggerhead. Since I must needs say it, I saw you a-top of your lady, and after, as I came down, I saw you arise and seat yourself where you presently are.' 'Assuredly,' said Nicostratus, 'thou dotest; for we have not stirred a jot, ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... replied the composed cockswain, seizing the line, which was running out of the boat with a velocity that rendered such a manoeuvre rather hazardous, and causing it to yield more gradually round the large loggerhead that was placed in the bows of the boat for that purpose. Presently the line stretched forward, and rising to the surface with tremulous vibrations, it indicated the direction in which the animal might be expected ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper

... you whoreson loggerhead, you were born to do me shame. Guilty, my lord, guilty; I ...
— Love's Labour's Lost • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]

... a bit I went around back. The kitchen was open, too, and no one in sight. I saw the water cistern and thought I'd fill up, when you could say something afterward. I did, and was rolling the cask about the house when this—loggerhead came out of the bushes. He wanted to know what I was getting away with, and I explained, but it didn't suit him. He said I might be telling facts and again I mightn't. I saw there was no use talking, and started rolling the ...
— Wild Oranges • Joseph Hergesheimer



Words linked to "Loggerhead" :   sea turtle, dolt, genus Caretta, marine turtle, pudding head, stupid person, pillock, dullard, stupid, Caretta, pudden-head, poor fish, stupe



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