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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