Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The monkey or weight of a pile-driver.
- noun A beetle-headed or stupid fellow.
- noun A name of the Swiss or black-bellied plover, Squatarola helvetica.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stupid fellow; a blockhead.
- noun (Zoöl.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (
Squatarola helvetica ). SeePlover .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stupid fellow ; ablockhead . - noun The
black-bellied plover , orbullhead (Squatarola helvetica).
Etymologies
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Examples
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So that if there be any beetlehead or grosse person, the better to allure and prouoke him to those follies, they tell him by a common Prouerbe: That he must go to Valencia.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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The black-bellied plover or beetlehead, which occurred along the Atlantic seaboard in great numbers years ago, is now seen only as a straggler.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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He’d hoped to land square on top of this two-hundred-pound beetlehead, but that’s not the way the wheel spun.
The Search Diane Carey 2000
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He’d hoped to land square on top of this two-hundred-pound beetlehead, but that’s not the way the wheel spun.
The Search Diane Carey 2000
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He’d hoped to land square on top of this two-hundred-pound beetlehead, but that’s not the way the wheel spun.
The Search Diane Carey 2000
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