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A dunderhead is a stupid person — a blunt, slightly comic insult, more at home in an old story or a grouchy joke than in careful speech. It is not a school grade and not a medical word. You say it when someone has done something thick: lost the tickets, walked into the glass door, argued a silly point to the end. It feels a little dated, like blockhead, and that age in the word takes some of the heat out; it can sound almost fond in a family, or merely rude if you aim it at a stranger. Though actually, it does not name a special kind of stupidity. It is just a heavy, thumping way to say the person's head is no help. Kind people keep it for themselves ('I am such a dunderhead') more than for someone who is already hurting.
笨蛋、傻瓜、榆木腦袋(有點老派的罵人話,故事裡比較常見)
組成From dunder + head. Head here stands for the person, as it does in other rude words of this shape. Dunder is an old first piece; I will not pretend I can name its brother-word with a straight face.
同家族的字
- blockheadthe same kind of rude compound: a sort of head standing for a sort of person
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dunderheadnoun/ˈdʌn.də.hɛd/
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datedA stupid person; a dunce.
- You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses!
- Poor old fellow's a dunderhead. That's where it is in a nutshell. Never could make a living. […] Nice old chap as ever lived. Only impractical, dreamy. Gentle as a sheep—and no more capable of running that big, expensive plant than a motherly old ewe.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。