fathead

F4A1T1H4E1A1D2
/ˈfæt.hɛd/

noun

An idiot; a fool.

“You fathead! You forgot to put the milk in the fridge and now it's spoiled!”

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

nounfathead (plural fatheads)

plural fatheads

  1. derogatoryAn idiot; a fool.

    You fathead! You forgot to put the milk in the fridge and now it's spoiled!

    1 more example

    ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’

    1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24
  2. A cyprinid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
  3. A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.
  4. A blobfish, Psychrolutes microporos
  5. Any of several species of fish of the genus Cubiceps

Synonyms & antonyms

antonym(s) of “derogatory”

Opposite

nouna man who is a stupid incompetent fool

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian глупак, тъпак
  • глупак (glupak)idiot
  • тъпак (tăpak)idiot
Finnish läskipää, rasvapäämutu
  • läskipääidiot
  • rasvapäämutuPimephales promelas
German Amerikanische Dickkopfelritze
  • Amerikanische DickkopfelritzePimephales promelas
Latin buccō
  • buccōidiot
Polish głąb, strzebla czerwonogłowa
  • głąbidiot
  • strzebla czerwonogłowaPimephales promelas
  • wargacz kalifornijskiSemicossyphus pulcher
  • blobfishPsychrolutes microporos
  • pasterzykfish of the genus Cubiceps
Welsh pendew
  • pendewidiot
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