Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
feather-brained .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Giddy; frivolous; foolish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective colloquial
giddy ;frivolous ;foolish
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Examples
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However, Master Yee turned the tables on his feather-headed enemies and became even more successful and wealthy in Canton.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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However, Master Yee turned the tables on his feather-headed enemies and became even more successful and wealthy in Canton.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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These, of course, are precisely the stories that culminated in the myth of "let them eat cake," and that Coppola's Marie Antoinette -- whose opening scene shows a feather-headed Marie Antoinette saucily licking cake off her fingers -- so lamentably perpetuates.
Caroline Weber: Let Them Eat Lace: Marie Antoinette's Fierce and Fearless Fashion 2008
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“You have trusted him too far,” said the other; “a feather-headed cox-comb, upon whose changeable mind and hot brain there is no making an abiding impression.”
The Abbot 2008
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I have a bad morality (Ich habe eine schlechte moralität) and I am feather-headed, but I am not a criminal.
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The fragile-looking, feather-headed Tezwan rifleman sailed backward, toppling most of his squad behind him and pinning their weapons beneath a jumble of flailing limbs.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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The fragile-looking, feather-headed Tezwan rifleman sailed backward, toppling most of his squad behind him and pinning their weapons beneath a jumble of flailing limbs.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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The fragile-looking, feather-headed Tezwan rifleman sailed backward, toppling most of his squad behind him and pinning their weapons beneath a jumble of flailing limbs.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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A pound of feathers weighs as much as (and in some poise more than) a pound of lead, and the leaden-headed Squire and the feather-headed Madame swung always at opposite ends of the beam, until it broke between them.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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But as I am a great fan of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show', seeing Carl Reiner in the role of Inspector House made qute an impression on a fair-headed yet feather-headed young boy.
Archive 2004-10-10 Toby O'B 2004
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