idlehead

plural idleheads

1. One who is vain and foolish.

   Will my visit disabuse you of that confusion, you idleheads?

   2007, Nickell John Romjue, The Black Box: Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud—stories, page 196

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   Wee may therefore conclude vpon their own confession against them that if papists neither haue been nor can be loyal to princes, or louing to their country desiring to bring both vnder the pop, & if their seruice be idolatrous, & their doctrine hereticall, and their practis superstitious as iş formerly demonstrated, howsoeuer idleheads prate of toleration of popery, that neither their religion, nor their audacious boldnes & sawcines is any longer to be tolerated, we may also conclude that the reasons alledged by this resolution in religion are either false or not concludent.

   1606, Matthew Sutcliffe, The Petition Apolojeticall of Lay Papists, page 95

   But now St. George must eyther poast away unto the Land of Faeries, and there remaine for ever, with other the Chimeras of an idlehead; or which is worse, bee layde for all eternity in the pit of horrour, with Heretickes and Atheists.

   1631, Peter Heylyn, The Historie of that Most Famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Iesus St George of Cappadochia, page 36

   How else could I show the world I was not a worthless idle-head?

   2014, James Alan Gardner, Ascending

   It did ensure, however, that those advance who are serious about dreaming, not just idleheads who can't control their dreams, or can't remember them.

   2020, Terence Kuch, Five O'Clock on the Sun

1. obsoleteuncountableobsolete form of idlehood