thickskull

English

Etymology

thick +‎ skull

Noun

thickskull (plural thickskulls)

  1. A dullard; a blockhead.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Entick to this entry?)
    • 1859, William Swinton, Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and Wisdom
      And how often do we hear persons stigmatized as 'numskulls' and 'thickskulls' and 'blockheads' — though why they should be block-heads, I know not […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for thickskull in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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