英语词汇“thick、headed”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

thick-headed

释义

ˈthick-ˈheaded, a.
[Parasynthetic f. prec. + -ed².]
Having a thick head. a. lit.; esp. in names of animals, as thick-headed mullet, Moxostoma congesta; thick-headed shrike = thick-head 2 a.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 314 Make a Trail..so as to bring it near some thick-headed Tree.1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 569 The thick-headed Hippopotamus, with no tail. The Copy-Bara.
b. fig. Dull of intellect; slow-witted, obtuse.
1801M. Edgeworth Gd. French Gov. (1895) 7 He was so ‘thick-headed at his book’, that Mrs. Grace..affirmed that he never would learn to read.1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxxv. 80 A thick-headed idea of law is, that it is a machine for getting men hanged.1891T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer II. vi. 481 Something of the feeling..which represents the members of the nobility as being good-hearted but also thick-headed.
Hence thickˈheadedness, obtuseness, crassness.
1889Voice (N.Y.) 14 Feb., He..failed to estimate the thickheadedness of the party addressed.1892Spectator 23 Jan. 126/2 Bumptious, bullying thickheadedness.

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