Yup davros if one was not then a lunkhead one could google it !which states
that there is no known derivation
My personal theory is that it was evolved to describe a rabid rodent
doormouse
P loving P
-----Original Message-----
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poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
Sent: 09 December 2005 15:49
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Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
Yup, Grandpa, I think we all know what 'lunkhead' means, as in usage,
question is what's its derivation?
Thereupon the great minds are puzzled.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Mc Manus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> lunkhead
>
>
> ("lVNkhEd)
>
> A blockhead. Hence lunk"headed a., thickheaded, stupid.
>
> 1884 'Mark Twain' Huck. Finn xxii. 225 So the duke said these Arkansaw
> lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare. 1889 A. W. Tourgee in Chicago
> Advance 19 Dec., You dear old lunkhead, I congratulate you! 1901 J. A.
Riis
> Making an American 315 A miserable little lunkhead quite beyond hope.
1885
> J. Hill Corsairs 19 Prospecters tearfully eloquent to the horny-handed
(and
> lunkheaded). 1908 Daily Chron. 23 July 3/2 Now do you see, you lunkhead?
> 1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves v. 52 A lunkhead capable of mucking things
> up as Gussie had done. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris ix. 165 They are
> not all lunkheads or mountebanks. 1966 Punch 7 Dec. 868/1 The poor
> lunkhead's concerns soon get lost under all the modelling and
backlighting.
>
>
> Cheers P lunkhead P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joanna Boulter
> Sent: 09 December 2005 11:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
>
> I only said you were a lunkhead because you had assured me the job was
going
>
> to be just so damn easy you could do it more or less blindfolded. That'll
> larn you!
>
> What *is a lunkhead, anyway? I came across the term in some book or other
> many years ago now, liked the sound of it, and went on using it.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
>
>
> > From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >>I live in Perth, a city wrapped around a river called the Swan River.
> >
> > Shouldn't that be "Perth", Andrew? The *real* Perth is located in of
> > course Scotland.
> >
> > I once passed a roadsign in England alleging the existence of a town
> > called Moscow. Singularly unlikely, and I didn't bother to visit it.
You
>
> > shouldn't believe everything you read on road signs, as anyone who has
> > tried to navigate the winding motorways of Britain knows well.
> >
> > (Singularly fatuous early morning pre-coffee email, but I feel like
saying
>
> > something now my internet access is firmly re-established. As is the
> > successful reformatting of another computer anent which I solicited
> > assistance yesterday. I will thank backchannel the three people who
> > responded and saved my ass. And ignore the fourth who sent a rather
cruel
>
> > email stating that I was a lunkhead.)
> >
> > The Red Rodent
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