chuckleheaded

comparative more chuckleheaded · superlative most chuckleheaded

1. stupid, idiotic

   Though a good chuckle-headed fellow, and free with his bread and cheese, he seemed to have his lord the Abbot on the brain[.]

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40

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   In one of these chuckleheaded essays about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Martin Amis complains about the use of the shorthand 9/11: “My principal objection to the numbers is that they are numbers,” he writes in “The Second Plane.”

   2008 April 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Novelist’s Crash Course on Terror”, in New York Times

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