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单词 chucklehead
释义

Definition of chucklehead in English:

chucklehead

nounˈtʃʌk(ə)lhɛdˈtʃəkəlˌhɛd
informal
  • A stupid person.

    〈非正式〉傻瓜,笨蛋

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All it takes is a couple of chuckleheads to close a trail.
    • Now, I realise I look like a bit of a chucklehead for bringing this up, but the thought of the day is that, gosh darn, that comic really got to me.
    • So the next time your local columnist or talk-show chucklehead screams about making a deal, tell him to take a deep breath.
    • They remain, however, a collection of chuckleheads when it comes to analyzing a theological document.
    • When I returned to my car, I was horrified to discover a bunch of chuckleheads from campus security milling around, having just finished booting my car.
    • Now, seriously, what kind of chucklehead leaves £4m worth of painting outside in a cardboard tube?
    • Now it's for chuckleheads and debased drunks the world over.
    • Across the many branches of science, some theories are so well researched and documented that only fundamentalist chuckleheads, and tenure-bloated, postmodernist, gasbags fuss over them.
    • That most people in pop music are complete chuckleheads is beyond doubt; but having a bald head and an interest in physics does not make him an intellectual.
    • ‘I remember one of these chuckleheads more clearly than the others.’
    • ‘What sort of tales has this chucklehead told you?’
    • Personally I deal with bumptious chuckleheads with attitudes like this every day.
    Synonyms
    idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod

Derivatives

  • chuckleheaded

  • adjectiveˈtʃʌk(ə)lhɛdɪdˈtʃəkəlˌhɛdəd
    informal
    • Plain-speaking and tongue-tied sincerity was a rhetorical convention like any other, but Shakespeare clung to it, embodied in fool-poets, in chuckleheaded peasants and witty children.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The hysteria can best be summed up in one funny sounding word: chuckleheaded.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from early 18th-century chuckle 'big and clumsy', probably related to chuck3 (sense 2).

Rhymes

knucklehead

Definition of chucklehead in US English:

chucklehead

nounˈCHəkəlˌhedˈtʃəkəlˌhɛd
informal
  • A stupid person.

    〈非正式〉傻瓜,笨蛋

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When I returned to my car, I was horrified to discover a bunch of chuckleheads from campus security milling around, having just finished booting my car.
    • They remain, however, a collection of chuckleheads when it comes to analyzing a theological document.
    • Now it's for chuckleheads and debased drunks the world over.
    • All it takes is a couple of chuckleheads to close a trail.
    • ‘What sort of tales has this chucklehead told you?’
    • Across the many branches of science, some theories are so well researched and documented that only fundamentalist chuckleheads, and tenure-bloated, postmodernist, gasbags fuss over them.
    • Now, seriously, what kind of chucklehead leaves £4m worth of painting outside in a cardboard tube?
    • ‘I remember one of these chuckleheads more clearly than the others.’
    • Now, I realise I look like a bit of a chucklehead for bringing this up, but the thought of the day is that, gosh darn, that comic really got to me.
    • So the next time your local columnist or talk-show chucklehead screams about making a deal, tell him to take a deep breath.
    • Personally I deal with bumptious chuckleheads with attitudes like this every day.
    • That most people in pop music are complete chuckleheads is beyond doubt; but having a bald head and an interest in physics does not make him an intellectual.
    Synonyms
    idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod

Origin

Mid 18th century: from early 18th-century chuckle ‘big and clumsy’, probably related to chuck (sense 2).

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