[f. BUFFLE + HEAD.] A fool, blockhead, stupid fellow.

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1659.  Lady Alimony, I. ii. in Hazl., Dodsley, XIV. 278. What a drolling bufflehead is this!

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1694.  Echard, Plautus, 48. What makes ye stare so, Bufflehead?

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1718.  J. Fox, Wanderer, xiv. 90. Tho’ my Forehead is broad, you Bufflehead, it is not brazen.

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1883.  J. Herring, III. lvi. 225. I don’t want the buffle-head to be coming here.

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