clod pate
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Free Dictionary
A blockhead; a dolt.
1811 Vulgar Tongue
A dull, heavy booby.
*Similar to addle pate.
A blockhead; a dolt.
A dull, heavy booby.
*Similar to addle pate.
A fool, or thick-skulled fellow.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A silly fellow. A dupe. To stand mouth; i.e. to be duped.
A noisy fellow. Mouth half cocked; one gaping and staring at every thing he sees. To make any one laugh on the wrong, or t’other side of his mouth; to make him cry or grieve.
A squinting wench.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
LOL!
An awkward, ignorant fellow.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A large, clumsy fellow.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A lazy, idle drone.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Heh.
A blockhead, or stupid fellow. We three loggerheads be: a sentence frequently written under two heads, and the reader by repeating it makes himself the third. A loggerhead is also a double-headed, or bar shot of iron. To go to loggerheads; to fall to fighting.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A slovenly fop; one finely dressed, but dirty.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Seriously…it’s in the dictionary as a phrase used then…I’m not making this stuff up…
A parasite, or talebearer.
A fawning subordinate : toady