Chiefly dial. [f. prec.] A blockhead, numbskull, dolt; a stupid lout.
1731–1800. Bailey, Chuckle-head.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand. (1865), 18. Is not he much handsomer and better built than that great chuckle-head?
1825–79. Jamieson, Chuckle-head, a dolt. Aberd.
1883. [J. De Mille], in Harper’s Mag., 886/1. Did you ever hear in all your life of such a perfect and unmitigated chuckle-head?
