mudhead

For me, the most wonderful thing about discovering the conversation taking place in the intertubes was finding out that thousands of other people were as pissed-off at the media as I was, and that there were some very smart people voicing our concerns. mudhead Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Delicate Flowers 2007

"He's a mudhead, ain't he," Pea said, carefully wiping his knife on his pants leg.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

"He's a mudhead, ain't he," Pea said, carefully wiping his knife on his pants leg.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

The injustice of being called a muttonhead all week for not obeying orders, and then being called a mudhead for stopping for orders, churned his soul, to say nothing of his language.

At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896

Any one but a mudhead who never saw the jungle would know that they know that the drivers are ended for the season.

The Jungle Book. 1893

I walked right plum into the sloo, like the mudhead that I was, an 'got mired for fair -- jes as I might a-knowed

A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886

(NID3 defines a mudhead as a member of a Zuñi ceremonial clown society appearing in tribal rites in mud-daubed masks symbolizing an early stage in the development of man.)

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 1984

“He’s a mudhead, ain’t he,” Pea said, carefully wiping his knife on his pants leg. “

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

“He’s a mudhead, ain’t he,” Pea said, carefully wiping his knife on his pants leg. “

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

States; but whether a hosier, or a buckeye, or a mudhead, is more than I can say. "

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various