A stupid, foolish, or dull person; a simpleton or someone lacking intelligence.
Compound of 'dough' (soft, formless) and 'head.' The metaphor compares a fool's mind to soft dough—malleable but empty, lacking substance or structure.
Doughhead beautifully illustrates how insults work—by comparing someone's brain to soft dough, it suggests both emptiness and lack of firmness of character, two qualities ancient cultures always mocked in fools.
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