Meanings
comparative more buffle-headed · superlative most buffle-headed
- obsoleteHaving a large head, like a buffalo's.
- obsoletedull; stupid; blundering
So fell this buffle-headed Gyant by the hand of Don Quixot
1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot1 more example
A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.
1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedull; stupid; blundering
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