A foolish or scatterbrained person; another term for a featherbrain.
Compound of 'feather' and 'head,' parallel to 'featherbrain.' Creates insults by comparing people's intellectual capacity to the lightness of feathers.
Every culture insults people's intelligence by comparing their heads to light objects—'featherhead,' 'airhead,' 'blockhead.' It reveals that humans across time see intelligence and weightiness as connected.
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