chuckleheaded adj.
foolish.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Tuesday Club Bk V in Micklus (1995) 89: Why should any saucy, pert, demure [...] coxcomb of a Clubical Critic, to say no worse of him, nay, any Chuckleheaded, unexperienced, raw, Saucy Jackanapes pretent to say, that this our famous History, is more triffling than any other history. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Homer Travestie (1797) II 31: You think the rock of Troy / Some chuckle-headed booby boy. | |
| Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 291: [as cit. 1762]. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Hermit in America on Visit to Phila. 2nd series 28: She was [...] Cribbage-faced—Beetle-headed—Bottle-headed—Buffle-headed,—and Chuckle-headed!!! | |
 | Limerick Reporter 6 Aug. 4/3: Troops of chuckleheaded little English aids, plump and platter-faced. | |
| Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 6 Aug. n.p.: That chuckle-headed Mr S who keeps a little grocery and grog-shop. | |
| (con. 1843) White-Jacket (1990) 247: When my brother arrives, he must consort more or less with our chuckle-headed reefers on board here. | |
| Adventures of Fudge Fumble 170: She was [...] a little chuckle-headed. | |
| Dick Temple III 190: The Billy to whom you are described as being ‘chuckleheaded’. | |
| Seth’s Brother’s Wife 124: I’m sick and tired of getting out telegraph for these chuckle-headed printers to throw on the floor! | |
| Three Men in a Boat 56: One of those irritating, senseless, chuckle-headed, crack-jawed laughs of his. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Sydney) 6 May. 5/6: Nobody but a chuckleheaded temperance fanatic would throw off such vapid twaddle. | |
| Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 9: Who’s the most chuckle-headed idiot in the crowd? | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 16 July 1/1: The chuckle-headed chump caught her absorbing ale with an Afghan. | |
| Arizona Nights 9: I’d walked into it, chuckleheaded as a prairie dog! | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 8 June 7s/4: It seems sad that a muddling, chuckle-headed set of legislators should be flies in the ointment. | |
| Morning Post 6 June 5: Is it possible to imagine a more chuckle-headed error in reasoning in a paper with the title of Clarity? | |
| Gilded Six-Bits (1995) 988: He so chuckle-headed, he got a pone behind his neck. | |
| High Sierra in Four Novels (1984) 285: Fat Evans, known to the grownups as ‘that chuckle-headed, lazy good-for-nothing.’. | |
| Cotters’ England (1980) 183: They’ve turned into chuckle-headed gossips. | |
| Chili 65: This chuckle headed cracker-honky-idiot. | |
| (con. 1975–6) Steel Toes 62: Trudging through the snow towards these chuckleheaded morons. |
In derivatives
foolishness.
| From Here to Eternity (1998) 487: He knew it was only luck he thought of it, the catching at straws of a man paralyzed by his own chuckleheadedness. |