a. [SOFT a. 29.] Weak in intellect; foolish, silly, stupid.
1667. Dryden & Dk. Newcastle, Sir M. Mar-all, III. i. Adieu soft-headed Sir Martin.
1721. Bailey, Cully,… a Fool, a soft headed Fellow.
1782. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 4 Nov. This young man is very … good, and soft-hearted; but alas! he is also soft-headed.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, xxxii. He is a strange, soft-headed, sleepy sort of man.
1884. Christian World, 21 Feb., 139/4. Large numbers of deluded women and soft-headed men.
Hence Soft-headedness.
1862. Whyte-Melville, Inside Bar, iii. Probably he was making a mental computation of my soft-headedness.
