Meanings
noundinderhead (plural dinderheads)
plural dinderheads
- EnglishSouthwesternalternativedialectalSouthwestern English variant of dunderhead, a blockhead.
Lawks, doant be clummed by Babbin Enapp, 'Sa bibbling, boostering, brinded chap, A dinderhead hadge-boar!
1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By a Devonshire Man1 more example
Being only a dim gentile I could not see the slightest connection between fish and guns, until, by now getting quite angry at my stupidity she roared in my ear "game-kipper (keeper), game-kipper, y'er dinderhead."
1971, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, The Society
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