: a stupid person
Synonyms
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- cluck
- clunk
- cretin
- cuddy [British dialect]
- cuddie
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- dolt
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- meathead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- prat [British]
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schlub [slang]
- shlub
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of fathead in a Sentence
Don't be such a fathead!
so who's the fathead who messed around with my movie collection?
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Minnows: Big minnows, such as fatheads, shiners, or shadlings, run neck-and-neck with nightcrawlers as top-notch ‘eye bait.
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
In their ice fishing shack, armed with cheap beer and with fathead minnows for bait, Lloyd and Marvin are two guys working things out.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
The 3- to 7-acre nursery ponds were poisoned with rotenone to kill out any existing fish before the Florida fish were stocked, along with forage species, including bluegill, threadfin shad and fathead minnows.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 July 2022
After 18 days of exposure to the drugs, the fish - juvenile fathead minnows - had their brains removed and the expression levels of various genes measured using a genetic microarray.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2012
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
In their ice fishing shack, armed with cheap beer and with fathead minnows for bait, Lloyd and Marvin are two guys working things out.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
The 3- to 7-acre nursery ponds were poisoned with rotenone to kill out any existing fish before the Florida fish were stocked, along with forage species, including bluegill, threadfin shad and fathead minnows.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 July 2022
After 18 days of exposure to the drugs, the fish - juvenile fathead minnows - had their brains removed and the expression levels of various genes measured using a genetic microarray.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2012
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“Fathead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fathead. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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fathead
noun
fat·head
ˈfat-ˌhed 
: a stupid person
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