Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Beef-head
subs. (old).—A dolt: a stupid, thick-headed person.
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1775. CAVENDISH, [BURKE, Correspondence (1844), II. 86]. The petition should be framed so as to … draw off some of the BEEF-HEADS who are disposed against it.
