turnip-headed

comparative more turnip-headed · superlative most turnip-headed

1. datedderogatoryslangStupid; foolish.

   [H]e called Bill a turnip-headed old carrot-cruncher, and other insulting names.

   1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 130

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   This consequential pigmy is in fact a perfect curiosity of the human species, and was doubtless intended by nature to occupy a niche in the gallery of the Australian Pickwick. Risen from the bench of the mechanic this turnip-headed moon-calf has the overweening presumption to aspire to the bench of magistracy!

   1840 January 18, The Colonist, Sydney, page 2, column 5