a. [f. BLOCKHEAD (sense 1) + -ED2.] Having a ‘block-head’; obtuse of intellect, dull, stupid. Of persons (rarely their productions). Hence Blockheadedness.

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  1549.  Olde, Erasm. Par. Ephes., Prol. C iij. Blockeheaded asses … doublefaced frendes.

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1594.  Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, xiii. (1596), 233. He is block-headed and dull.

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1657.  Flatman, Cordial, 1/2. See, how the block headed Multitude wonders!

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1702.  Eng. Theophrast., 377. Old men are only great block-headed boys with beards.

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1860.  Miss Yonge, Stokesley Secr., viii. (1880), 252. My father said I was too block-headed to beat navigation into.

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  1716.  M. Davies, in Ath. Brit., II. 168. The loudest piece of blockheadedness, and the last shift of Dunces.

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