buffle-headed

adjective

Having a large head, like a buffalo's.

Meanings

adjectivebuffle-headed (comparative more buffle-headed, superlative most buffle-headed)

comparative more buffle-headed · superlative most buffle-headed

  1. obsoleteHaving a large head, like a buffalo's.
  2. obsoletedull; stupid; blundering

    So fell this buffle-headed Gyant by the hand of Don Quixot

    1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot
    1 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 4

    Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed

Synonyms & antonyms

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