feather-headed

comparative more feather-headed · superlative most feather-headed

1. colloquialfoolish or frivolous

   Lucky wondered as he stood if there was anything worse than some foolishly romantic, feather headed old maid?

   2010, Barri Bryan, Bridget's Secret

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   ... some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them,

   1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 54, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC

   “You may be a feather—headed imbecile but is it a crime to be a feather-headed imbecile? What could you have possibly done to deserve this?”

   2003, James C. Ferguson, Context Clues: A Basil Coventry Misadventure

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having feathers on one's head.