jolter

More of a pusher, rather than a forceful jolter with his hand punch ...

USATODAY.com 2005

“Hobgoblin,” answered the boy readily; “but for all that, I would rather have my own ugly viznomy than any of their jolter-heads, that have no more brains in them than a brick-bat.”

Kenilworth 2004

'Thou jolter-head!' muttered the Anglian to himself; then with a jog to

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

No doubt I rejoiced to fool these jolter-heads; and no doubt the sense of security that I drank from their dull, gasping faces encouraged me to proceed extremely far.

St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

With such undeniable facts before him, he would be the most jolter-headed fool alive, did he allow himself to be seduced by any spirit of a maudlin sentimentality or pseudo-philanthropy, to destroy by a misdirected benevolence all the good results which it has taken nearly two centuries to accomplish.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

We must have been jolter-headed geniuses not to have anticipated M. 's reply.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

It is delightful to find throughout that you have taken great pains with it besides, and have "gone at it" with a perfect knowledge of the jolter-headedness of the conceited idiots who suppose that volumes are to be tossed off like pancakes, and that any writing can be done without the utmost application, the greatest patience, and the steadiest energy of which the writer is capable.

The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841

But it isn't hanging yet for a man to keep a penn'orth of poison for his own purposes, and have it taken from him by two old crazy jolter-heads who go and act a play about it.

Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

I called them jolter heads, numsculls, dunderpates, dom cops, bottericks, domme jordans, and a thousand other equally indignant appellations.

A History of New York 1809

"Hobgoblin," answered the boy readily; "but for all that, I would rather have my own ugly viznomy than any of their jolter-heads, that have no more brains in them than a brick-bat."

Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801