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thickhead

Definitions

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

  • noun A stupid person; a blockhead.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull.
  • noun In ornithology: A shrike-like bird of the subfamily Pachycephalinæ. See cut under Pachycephala.
  • noun A scansorial barbet of the subfamily Capitoninæ. Coues. See cut under Capito.

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

  • noun colloq. A thick-headed or stupid person.
  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright-colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes.

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

  • noun Someone stupid.
  • noun Any of several species of Australian songbirds of the genus Pachycephala.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call

Etymologies

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thick +‎ head

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. idiot

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. flycatcher
  2. old world flycatcher
  3. true flycatcher

variants (1)

Variants

  1. thrushes

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. white-throated thickhead

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  • reesetee commented on the word thickhead

    Older term for Pachycephala genus of birds.

    January 9, 2009