Meanings
plural concrete-heads
- colloquialhumorousA stupid person; sometimes one who is being stubborn to the point of stupidity.
As far as I can determine, I am a bleeding heart liberal. Personally I think that's way preferable over a concrete-head conservative, if given a choice between the two.
2004 January 5, Rainy, “Does anyone know”, in alt.fan.keanu-reeves (Usenet), retrieved 02 Aug 20222 more examples
"So get dressed and stop scowling. I'll tell you about it later." He hoped that would be enough but her scowl deepened. He met it with a grin. "I regret nothing." "Of course not, you're a concrete-head. Have you heard anything from Enrique?"
2014 September 19, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Black & Orange, Bad Moon Books DigitalIt had taken his little ten year-old sister telling him to stop being a concrete-head to get him to fly across the solar system. Now, the only thing keeping him from returning to the two most important people in his life was this asshole dragging his heels.
2016 July 7, Wesley Chu, Time Siege, Duncan Baird Publishers, →ISBN
Origin
Purportedly from a calque from Japanese 頭(あたま)が固(かた)い (atama ga katai, “resistant to new ways of thinking”, literally “having a hard head”). Possibly originally from unattested Taiwanese Japanese *頭(あたま)コンクリート (atama konkurīto, literally “concrete-head”), which can be reconstructed from the phonetic borrowing of Taiwanese Mandarin 阿達馬孔固力/阿达马孔固力 (ādámǎ kǒnggùlì, “concrete-head”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 阿達馬孔固力 /阿达马孔固力, 阿搭馬孔固力 /阿搭马孔固力
- 阿達馬孔固力 /阿达马孔固力 (ādámǎ kǒnggùlì)Translations
- 阿搭馬孔固力 /阿搭马孔固力 (ādāmǎ kǒnggùlì)Translations
Cite this entry
concrete-head. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concrete-head
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