Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dull; stupid; doltish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dull; stupid.
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- adjective
dull ;stupid
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- adjective (used informally) stupid
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Examples
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In these islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera), which sometimes weighs twenty-two pounds, is very abundant.
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In these islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera), which sometimes weighs twenty-two pounds, is very abundant.
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These clumsy, loggerheaded ducks make such a noise and splashing, that the effect is exceedingly curious.
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These clumsy, loggerheaded ducks make such a noise and splashing, that the effect is exceedingly curious.
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Here remark, that his dinner was sober and thrifty, for he did then eat only to prevent the gnawings of his stomach, but his supper was copious and large, for he took then as much as was fit to maintain and nourish him; which, indeed, is the true diet prescribed by the art of good and sound physic, although a rabble of loggerheaded physicians, nuzzeled in the brabbling shop of sophisters, counsel the contrary.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Here remark, that his dinner was sober and thrifty, for he did then eat only to prevent the gnawings of his stomach, but his supper was copious and large, for he took then as much as was fit to maintain and nourish him; which, indeed, is the true diet prescribed by the art of good and sound physic, although a rabble of loggerheaded physicians, nuzzeled in the brabbling shop of sophisters, counsel the contrary.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In these islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera), which sometimes weighs twenty-two pounds, is very abundant.
Chapter IX 1909
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These clumsy, loggerheaded ducks make such a noise and splashing, that the effect is exceedingly curious.
Chapter IX 1909
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Come away with thy basket, thou loggerheaded jack.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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These clumsy, loggerheaded ducks make such a noise and splashing, that the effect is exceedingly curious.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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