The 3,274 occurrences of blockhead

View the definition of "blockhead" on The Online Slang Dictionary

Offensiveness score: 52.80% out of 5 votes
Cast your vote: (coming soon)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

~   ~   ~   Sentence 222   ~   ~   ~

"I'm not a blockhead, that I should go to the labor of filling the skins with water," replied Stan.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 638   ~   ~   ~

But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,642   ~   ~   ~

their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.--Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still as of old, "what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,784   ~   ~   ~

Now consider that we have the valuation of our own deserts ourselves, and what a fund of Self-conceit there is in each of us,--do you wonder that the balance should so often dip the wrong way, and many a Blockhead cry: See there, what a payment; was ever worthy gentleman so used!--I tell thee, Blockhead, it all comes of thy Vanity; of what thou _fanciest_ those same deserts of thine to be.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,905   ~   ~   ~

And then how your Blockhead (_Dummkopf_) studies not their Meaning; but simply whether they are well or ill cut, what he calls Moral or Immoral!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,652   ~   ~   ~

In the latter respect he was beaten by all the blockheads of the school, but in his adornments he stood alone.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,123   ~   ~   ~

Though Sir Walter Scott, when at Edinburgh College, went by the name of "The Greek Blockhead," he was, notwithstanding his lameness, a remarkably healthy youth; he could spear a salmon with the best fisher on the Tweed, and ride a wild horse with any hunter in Yarrow.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 460   ~   ~   ~

"Blockhead!" was the courteous reply, "what, not believe your own son?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 928   ~   ~   ~

True enough; and Roger would never have been such a monetary blockhead, had he not been now so generally tipsy; the fumes of beer had mingled with his plan, and all his usual shrewdness had been blunted into folly by greediness of lucre on the one side, and potent liquors on the other.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,022   ~   ~   ~

let him not cross my path, gossiping blockhead!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,582   ~   ~   ~

Take my word for it--if indeed I can be a fair witness--the man who has written a book, is above the unwriting average, and, as such, should be ranked mentally above them: no light research, and tact, and industry, and head-and-hand labour, are sufficient for a volume; even certain stolid performances in print do not shake my judgment; for arrant blockheads as sundry authors undoubtedly are, the average (mark, not all men, but the average) unwriting man is an author's intellectual inferior.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,972   ~   ~   ~

"An English lady would be scornful of our kind, but an American would not be so particular, blockhead?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 471   ~   ~   ~

"Great honor forsooth," said he, "I shall receive from such a blockhead as this.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 985   ~   ~   ~

Come, come," said he to his myrmidons, "take these blockheads to our paradise, to their companions."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,096   ~   ~   ~

"A pretty king are you, sir Lucifer," said she, "to keep such unmannerly blockheads; it is a sin that so large a kingdom should be under one so incompetent to govern them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,220   ~   ~   ~

On the other hand, if _she_ and her disciples are to be believed, the _devout man_ is only a _hypocrite_ or a _blockhead_; the _gentle_ but a _sneaking dog_; the _sober_ a mere _hunks_, and so on.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,001   ~   ~   ~

I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a blockhead; a very great man!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,574   ~   ~   ~

But when I see these blockheads of historians asserting that the Emperor forgot to send orders to General Rapp, I feel a terrible itching to cut their ---- story short, at least.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,759   ~   ~   ~

what blockheads men are!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,109   ~   ~   ~

Blockhead, n. [blóckjed] Necio, tonto.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,525   ~   ~   ~

Sleeping, to be sure, is the most serious employment of your life-for as to eating, you hardly match a sparrow; but I entreat you to sleep without dreaming, or to keep your visions to yourself.-Why do you keep such fast hold o [Pg 173] f me?-What on earth can you be afraid of?-Surely you do not think the blockhead Binks, or any other of the good folks below yonder, dared to turn on me?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,464   ~   ~   ~

Here is a blockhead, whom I already mentioned, Sir Bingo Binks, with whom something may be done worth your while, though scarce worth mine .

~   ~   ~   Sentence 786   ~   ~   ~

The wise enjoy the wit; the blockheads of monks take them seriously, and believe that they have been written to do them honour.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,484   ~   ~   ~

The orthodox, it appears, can call him names--call him blockhead, fool, heretic, toadstool, schismatic, and Antichrist--but they must come to me to answer his arguments.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,119   ~   ~   ~

Give this lad a dram; and, as it rather looks like a shower, I'll e'en no go out the night.--I'll easily manage to find another driver, though half a hundred o' the blockheads should get their brains knocked out.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,404   ~   ~   ~

Stick to that point, Tode Mall, you blockhead, you.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,480   ~   ~   ~

The sentiments so widely appreciated were contained in the following remarks addressed to the French and German governments:-- "Just try once, you blockheads, to stir up one people against the other, to arm one people against the other, you will see if the peoples won't make an entirely different use of the weapons you put into their hands.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,791   ~   ~   ~

I say Sir, I was an ass--do you hear?--an _ass_, premature, wise before my time, a brute, a blockhead!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 13,236   ~   ~   ~

Hence Pope says: Benlowes, propitious still to blockheads, bows; And Shadwell nods the poppy on his brows.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 8,937   ~   ~   ~

You're a blockhead, just like your father!'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 540   ~   ~   ~

"Mum, you blockhead, mum!" said his host "There is a stir outside the door I tell you!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,392   ~   ~   ~

It means that you are a stupid, a fool, a blockhead!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,411   ~   ~   ~

'Tis only a blockhead like yourself that can't see what all the world sees!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,499   ~   ~   ~

But Master Jock not only did not laugh at these funny things, but actually took Miska Horhi to task for making such a blockhead of himself, and bade him divert himself more decently in future.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,941   ~   ~   ~

He is no mere blockhead, like the ordinary workman; he has travelled in foreign parts, he can stand up before anybody; and then he loves you so much."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,369   ~   ~   ~

This was the girl's way of showing that she accepted the offer of the gentleman who was so fond of sitting on the sofa, and how delicately she conveyed her consent--that blockhead of a Boltay did not suspect anything.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,135   ~   ~   ~

Dame Marion pouted, and turned her head aside; the man was such a blockhead that he absolutely could not understand any attempt to aggravate him.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 966   ~   ~   ~

The little Frenchman impresses me very strongly, too,--so lonely as he is here, struggling against the world, with bitter feelings in his breast, and yet talking with the vivacity and gayety of his nation; making this his home from darkness to daylight, and enjoying here what little domestic comfort and confidence there is for him; and then going about all the livelong day, teaching French to blockheads who sneer at him, and returning at about ten o'clock in the evening (for I was wrong in saying he supped here,--he eats no supper) to his solitary room and bed.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,010   ~   ~   ~

"Why, that _was_ the joke, you blockhead!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 741   ~   ~   ~

"Why, you blockhead, didn't you see that was the wrong Wheatfield--not Wally, but the Modern one!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,866   ~   ~   ~

We had seen that Mozart had composed music at six, and written it down very untidily too; we had seen that Marlborough had, by sheer cheek, been made an officer at about our age; that David Wilkie, one of the dullest of boys, had painted pictures while at school; that Scott, a notorious blockhead, had written poetry at thirteen; and that James Watt, at the same age, with very little education, had pondered over the spout of a tea-kettle.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 334   ~   ~   ~

"And why don't you, you blockhead?" he replied passionately, with distended eyes.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,955   ~   ~   ~

That's all you know, you blockhead!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 512   ~   ~   ~

BLOCKHEAD The recruit complained to the sergeant that he'd got a splinter in his finger.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 520   ~   ~   ~

Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 687   ~   ~   ~

Seven things characterise the wise man, and seven the blockhead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 695   ~   ~   ~

The reverse of all this characterises the blockhead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,226   ~   ~   ~

Even a blockhead may respect inspire, So long as he is suitably attired; A fool may gain esteem among the wise, So long as he has sense to hold his tongue.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,483   ~   ~   ~

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,590   ~   ~   ~

Blockhead in fine clothes, 465.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,591   ~   ~   ~

Blockhead, lively, 562.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,005   ~   ~   ~

When it was related as a wonder that Giordano painted with his fingers, no Angelo was found to observe, "Why does not the blockhead use his brush."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,249   ~   ~   ~

These men who design, and those who consent to the act, may be Liberals or Tories, Protestants or Catholics, but beyond a doubt they are tasteless blockheads--poor devils without reverence or education--men, who, as Wordsworth says-- "Would peep and botanise Upon their mothers' graves."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,861   ~   ~   ~

The announcement of this plan was received in the Commons with extravagant praise by the Irish Whig and Repeal members, nor was any hostility displayed except by the blockhead and bigot, Sir Robert Inglis--a preposterous fanatic, who demands the repeal of the Emancipation Act, and was never yet missed from the holy orgies of Exeter Hall.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 47   ~   ~   ~

In short, my impressions were, that chop-rye mixed with water in a hogshead, and let stand for two or three days; and then put into a still, and fire being put under her, would produce the spirit by boiling up into the worm, and to pass through the water in order to cool it, and render it palatable for immediate use--and was certain the whole art and mystery could be learned in two or three weeks, or months at farthest, as I had frequently met with persons who professed a knowledge of the business, which they had acquired in two or three months, and tho' those men were esteemed distillers, and in possession of all the necessary art, in this very abstruse science; I soon found them to be ignorant blockheads, without natural genius, and often, without principle.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 51   ~   ~   ~

Scientific men generally look down on us, and that is principally owing to the circumstance of so many knaves, blockheads and conceited characters being engaged in the business.--If then, the subject could be improved, I fancy our country would yield all the necessary liquors, and in a state of perfection, to gratify the opulent, and please the epicure.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,589   ~   ~   ~

[68] There is no Resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; but have we not paper and pens, and cannot every blockhead print his opinions, and the Day of Judgment become Republican, with everybody for a judge, and the flat of the universe for the throne?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,265   ~   ~   ~

The "dullness" which many modern readers inevitably feel, and some modern blockheads think it creditable to allege, in Scott, consists not a little in his absolute purity from every loathsome element or excitement of the lower passions; so that people who live habitually in Satyric or hircine conditions of thought find him as insipid as they would a picture of Angelico's.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,582   ~   ~   ~

A man of sense is more an egoist in modesty than a blockhead is in boasting; and it is neither pride nor self-respect, but only ignorance and ill-breeding, that either disguise the facts of life, or violate its courtesies.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,780   ~   ~   ~

The world has been very kind to many who were once known as dunces or blockheads, after they have become very successful; but it was very cross to them while they were struggling through discouragement and misinterpretation.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,781   ~   ~   ~

Give every boy and girl a fair chance and reasonable encouragement, and do not condemn them because of even a large degree of downright stupidity; for many so-called good-for-nothing boys, blockheads, numskulls, dullards, or dunces, were only boys out of their places, round boys forced into square holes.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,796   ~   ~   ~

Sir Walter Scott was called a blockhead by his teacher.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,798   ~   ~   ~

Young Linnaeus was called by his teachers almost a blockhead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,074   ~   ~   ~

"Tut, you blockhead," replied the other, "gibbets are the making of us; for, if there were no gibbets, every one would be a highwayman."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,968   ~   ~   ~

How easy it is for a parent or teacher to ruin a child's constructive ability, to change a naturally, positive creative mind to a negative, non-producing one, by chilling the child's enthusiasm, by projecting into his plastic mind the idea that he is stupid, dull, lazy, a "blockhead" and good-for-nothing; that he will never amount to anything; that it is foolish for him to try to be much, because he has not the ability or physical stamina to enable him to accomplish what many others do.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,002   ~   ~   ~

"Don't be such a blockhead, Ladle!" cried Vince excitedly.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 158   ~   ~   ~

"Bill Widgeon, you're about the biggest blockhead in the crew."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 159   ~   ~   ~

"Well, I dunno about that, sir; I may be a blockhead, but I arn't lost the letter."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,248   ~   ~   ~

My old schoolmaster used to tell me I was a blockhead, and I thought he was wrong; but he was right enough, or I shouldn't be here."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 585   ~   ~   ~

He showed so much attention, engrossing attention, one day, to the only blockhead at table (the whole company consisted of his lordship, dunder-pate, and myself), that I was within half a point of throwing down my gage of contemptuous defiance, but he shook my hand and looked so benevolently good at parting, God bless him!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 931   ~   ~   ~

"When I skulk into a corner lest the rattling equipage of some gaping blockhead should mangle me in the mire, I am tempted to exclaim, 'What merits has he had, or what demerit have I had, in some previous state of existence, that he is ushered into this state of being with the sceptre of rule, and the keys of riches in his puny fist, and I am kicked into the world, the sport of folly, or the victim of pride?...

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,883   ~   ~   ~

The thing is easy to be done, and Nadân the man to do it.” ‘The mollah bashi, who, though the cream of blockheads in all other cases, is very quick-sighted when his interest is concerned, caught at my idea, for he foresaw a great harvest of gain for himself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 55   ~   ~   ~

Even the lumpish blockhead, Squire Sullen--according to Macaulay a type of the main strength of the Tory party for half a century after the Revolution--contrasts favourably with his prototype Sir John Brute in Vanbrugh's _Provoked Wife_, He is a sodden sot, who always goes to bed drunk, but he is not a demon; he does not beat his wife in public; he observes common decency somewhat.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 609   ~   ~   ~

There's some diversion in a talking blockhead; and since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,560   ~   ~   ~

Blockhead!'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,141   ~   ~   ~

_Will._ Oh most damnably, and a confounded Blockhead, two certain Remedies against your Pride and Scorn.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,473   ~   ~   ~

_Aria._ _Beaumond!_ _Beau._ Oh what a World of Time have I mispent for want of being a Blockhead-- 'Sdeath and Hell, Wou'd I had been some brawny ruffling Fool, Some forward impudent unthinking Sloven, A Woman's Tool; for all besides unmanageable.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,620   ~   ~   ~

_2 Sold._ A Blockhead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,803   ~   ~   ~

_Whit._ That will not recommend him at this _Juncto_, tho he's an excellent Tool for your Lordship to make use of; and therefore use him, Sir, as _Cataline_ did _Lentulus_; drill the dull Fool with Hopes of Empire on, and that all tends to his Advancement only: The Blockhead will believe the Crown his own: What other Hopes could make him ruin Richard, a Gentleman of Qualities a thousand times beyond him?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,940   ~   ~   ~

_Gill._ Her Highness, Blockhead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 8,520   ~   ~   ~

_Free._ On the zealous Parole of _Rabbie Ananias_; that Rhetorick that can convert whole Congregations of well-meaning Blockheads to errant Knaves, has now mollify'd my Keeper; I'm to be render'd back within this Hour: let's not, my dear _Maria_, lose the precious minutes this Reverend Hypocrite has given us.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,460   ~   ~   ~

"You're a blockhead, it seems to me," went on the purser, who was in particularly bad humor that day.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,465   ~   ~   ~

"He called me a blockhead."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,594   ~   ~   ~

"Look here, you blockhead, why don't you keep this gangway clear?" he roared to Randy.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,497   ~   ~   ~

"What do you mean by running into me, you blockhead!" cried the purser, in a loud voice.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,511   ~   ~   ~

"The blockhead of a boy dropped that trunk and broke it open."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,569   ~   ~   ~

"He continually calls me a blockhead, just to get me mad.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,637   ~   ~   ~

Oh, had you seene, as I did, the Blockheads poring over the Title, and hammering at it while you might have walked to _Mile End_ and back!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,752   ~   ~   ~

the Blockhead!--and that I should live to call a Woman soe.--Sobriety, indeede!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,928   ~   ~   ~

We shall do this to satisfy the blockheads who are a noun of multitude.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,873   ~   ~   ~

"'Blockheads!' cried the lieutenant, beginning to get angry.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,121   ~   ~   ~

Fly, blockhead!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,491   ~   ~   ~

When they had taken their seats in the corner of the room, Yussuf said, "Now, my guests, as you hope for pardon, tell me, do you know nothing of what has happened to me this day--and what the blockhead of a caliph has been about?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,104   ~   ~   ~

But the tale would not be singular even were it true: it perfectly suits the character of a bigot, a barbarian, and a blockhead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,672   ~   ~   ~

The fine description by Akenside of the Pantheon, "SEVERELY great," not being understood by the blockhead, was printed _serenely great_.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,528   ~   ~   ~

We may smile when he calls a blockhead, a blockhead; a dotard, a dotard; but when he attacks, for a difference of opinion, the _morals_ of another man, our sensibility is alarmed.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,584   ~   ~   ~

"Tut, you blockhead," replied the other, "gibbets are the making of us; for, if there were no gibbets, every one would be a highwayman."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,778   ~   ~   ~

The presumption is that he is a superior man; and if, in point of fact, he is not a sheer blockhead, the presumption then is that he is very superior indeed."

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33