Ah yes. An honourable pedigree, I see. And affectionate too. Much as I
thought.
joanna
> 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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