dough-head

I'll bet that dough-head never put a foot in National Forests once while he was West: rot about running off settlers, and shutting down mines, and hampering lumbering operations, and low down personal stuff!

The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

"Shut up, you dough-head," cried Strout, his face purple with rage.

Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Charles Felton Pidgin 1883

"You called me a dough-head this morning," added Richard.

In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. Oliver Optic 1859

Then you called him a dough-head; which, as Grant suggests, was the heaviest blow that was struck, for it touches a spot which the fist cannot reach.

In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. Oliver Optic 1859

"He called me a dough-head, on drill, this morning."

In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. Oliver Optic 1859

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig told lieutenants he was thankful he didn't take the game's advanced media properties into what was a rumoured $2.5-billion IPO two years earlier, for fear of what dough-head owners would have done with that revenue.

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Baseball commissioner Bud Selig told lieutenants he was thankful he didn't take the game's advanced media properties into what was a rumoured $2.5-billion IPO two years earlier, for fear of what dough-head owners would have done with that revenue.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JEFF BLAIR 2011

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig told lieutenants he was thankful he didn't take the game's advanced media properties into what was a rumoured $2.5-billion IPO two years earlier, for fear of what dough-head owners would have done with that revenue.

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"Bud hasn't got much tact: he called Irish a dough-head.

The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905

You are a perfect dough-head, "said Nevers, the last remark being in a low tone, though it was distinctly heard by the subject of it.

In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. Oliver Optic 1859