Meanings
nounmuddlehead (plural muddleheads)
plural muddleheads
- colloquialA stupid person.
A reactionary muddlehead who waves the feminist banner does not thereby cease to be a reactionary muddlehead.
1978 April 1, John Lauritsen, “Praising Mitzel”, in Gay Community News, page 41 more example
The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe
1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events
Origin
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muddlehead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muddlehead
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