a. Having a thick skull; hence fig. slow or dull of apprehension; dense, dull-witted; = THICK-HEADED.
a. 1653. G. Daniel, Idyll., v. 140. As the thick-Skull’d Turke … It baffles vs, with our owne Instrument.
1673. Ess. Educ. Gentlewom., 32. Every thick-skull’d Fellow that babbles this out, thinks no Billingsgate Woman can Answer it.
1755. Smollett, Quix., I. IV. xxi. (1803), II. 258. Is it possible that your worship can be so thick-skulled and brainless, as not to perceive the truth of what I alledge?
1821. Scott, Lett. to Cunningham, 27 April. The common class of readers … are thick-skulled enough.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life, Fate, Wks. II. 317. Thick-skulled, small-brained, fishy … quadruped.
So Thick-skull, a thick-skulled person.
1755. Johnson, Dolt, a heavy stupid fellow; a blockhead; a thickscul; a loggerhead.
1838. Jas. Grant, Sk. Lond., 223. Says I, ‘You lie, you stupid thickskull!’
1894. Crockett, Raiders, 346. Such a thick-skull was I.
