codshead

plural codsheads · alternative cod's head · alternative cod's-head

1. derogatoryA stupid person; a fool.

   Whacks was a sorry codshead of a manager, to tell the truth.

   2017, Cinda Williams Chima, Shadowcaster, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, →ISBN, page 94

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   He interrupted this harangue to roar at an assistant. "What's this you're bringing out, you miserable, sniveling codshead?"

   1957, Thomas B. Costain, Below the Salt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 172

   "No codes, and only one contact, Knowle; that's all the scribbler would deal with. Safer all around, what? Even if it meant we didn't know the bloke's identity. That chap, the contact, is already in London, safe as houses. We aren't complete codsheads, what?"

   1999, Barbara Metzger, The Primrose Path, Thorndike, M.E.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 111

   Synonyms: dunderhead, numbskull, alcatote, asshat, arsehole, asshole, bayard, berk