Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stupid, gauche person; a blockhead.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large or thick head; hence, a dunce; a numskull.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Low A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun informal a stupid or clumsy person
  • noun zoology A coastal rockfish of California, Sebastodes chlorostictus.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Possibly from chuck.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

chuckle +‎ -head

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  • "No, you're not, you chuckle-head, you're singing the Judge's song from Trial by Jury."

    -- Three Men in a Boat

    March 20, 2009

  • Definition: "A stupid, gauche person; a blockhead" (http://www.answers.com/chucklehead)

    July 9, 2009