a. [f. as prec. + -ED.] Having a chuckle-head; block-headed.
1764. T. Brydges, Homer Travest. (1797), II. 31. You think the rock of Troy Some chuckle-headed booby boy.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XII. 109. Many simple, chuckle-headed, open-mouthed people.
1886. G. Saintsbury, in Academy, 31 July, 69/2. An amiable but, to tell the honest truth, rather chuckle-headed young English squire.
Hence Chuckle-headedness sb.
1880. ‘Mark Twain,’ Tramp Abroad, I. 123. With the native chuckleheadedness of the heroine of romance, she preferred the poor and obscure lover.
1885. Ch. Times, 498/1. The chuckleheadedness … of drawing such a parallel.
