Crossword clues for bonehead
bonehead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bonehead \bone"head`\ n. a person of low intelligence; a dunce; a blockhead; -- used deprecatingly to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence or capabilities.
Syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, fuckhead.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) Someone who is stubborn, thick-skulled, or stupid.
WordNet
n. these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, fuckhead]
Wikipedia
Bonehead can refer to:
As a derogatory term:
- Afrikaner (used in South Africa)
- White power skinhead (used by punk rockers and Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice)
In arts and entertainment:
- Bonehead (band), a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania band
- Bone Head, a 1997 album by the band Half Japanese
- Bonehead, a BBC TV series starring Colin Douglas
- Bonehead, a character in various comic films, such as The Bullshitters: Roll out the Gunbarrel
People:
- Bonehead Merkle (1888–1956), American baseball player
- Paul Arthurs, nicknamed Bonehead, former rhythm guitarist of the band Oasis
Other uses:
- Pachycephalosaurus or similar species
Bonehead (also known as Familiar 48) were an American alternative rock band active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They are best known for their US radio hit, "The Question".
Usage examples of "bonehead".
T-kings cull the weakest members of the herds, whether duckbills, boneheads, fleet-footed hypsilophodonts, or horned dinosaurs.
The huts and shacks were as squat and misshapen as the boneheads themselves.
Rood released the two boneheads and let them forage on the cold ground.
Indeed the boneheads would have starved if not for the largesse, and waste, of the people.
Neither animal nor person, nothing about the boneheads was worthy of respect.
The boneheads seemed to have enough mind to be fascinated by the artifacts of the people, yet not enough to make them for themselves: You could buy whatever you wanted from a bonehead for the sake of a mammoth-ivory bead or a carved bone harpoon.
And where Jahna wore close-fitting clothes of stitched leather and plant fiber, with straw-stuffed moccasins, a fur-lined hood and woven cap, the bonehead cow wore simple wraps of filthy, well-worn leather, tied on with bits of sinew.
The lashing and lines were made from tough sealskin, and the reins that would control the bonehead haulers were made of mammoth leather.
The bonehead girl scrabbled for the pendant and held it up before her face, turning it over and over, peering into its endless mysteries.
As when he took the young bonehead cow, Rood felt relief from the guilt, the constant nagging doubts.
They say that in a stretch of worthless ground near the coast, a bonehead infests a cliff-top cave.
Even the big bonehead was dozing, she saw, slumped against a wall, belching softly.
Aleramo Scaccabarozzi, known as Bonehead, and Cuttica of Quargnento, from the days when they fished together in the Bormida.
There were the Cremonese with Bishop Sicardo, the men of Brescia, of Verona with Cardinal Adelardo, and even some Alessandrians, including old friends of Baudolino like Boidi, Cuttica of Quargnento, Porcelli, Aleramo Scaccabarozzi known as Bonehead, Colandrino the brother of Colandrina, who was therefore a brother-in-law, and also one of the Trotti men, Pozzi, Ghilini, Lanzavecchia, Peri, Inviziati, Gambarini, and Cermelli, all at their own expense or supported by their city.
Colandrino Guasco, Porcelli, and Aleramo Scaccabarozzi, known as Bonehead, but a sturdy, trustworthy man, who asked few questions.