Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Acting like a blockhead; densely stupid: as, “some blockheadly hero,”

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Examples

  • She is my sister, and must be capable of distinguishing such — but confound you for a blockheadly puppy, as my god-father says, I do not want to increase the vanity from which you cannot be exempt.

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

  • Such a blockheadly blunder well deserves castigation!

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

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