An insulting term for a stupid or foolish person.
Compound word from 'dumb' (stupid) and 'head,' following the pattern of 'blockhead' and other head-based insults common since medieval times.
Head-based insults ('airhead,' 'fathead,' 'blockhead') reveal how people historically blamed stupidity on the brain itself—treating the head as a container that could be full of the wrong things.
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