The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jolterhead \Jolt"er*head`\, Jolthead \Jolt"head`\, n. [See
Jolt, Jowl.]
A dunce; a blockhead.
--Sir T. North.
Usage examples of "jolterhead".
Bay of Funchal--there was not so much as a powder-boy but could understand every word that I said, whereas on shore there is many a great jolterhead, like thyself, who might be a Portugee for all the English that he knows, and who stares at me like a pig in a hurricane if I do lint ask him what he makes the reckoning, or how many bells have gone.
Bay of Funchal--there was not so much as a powder-boy but could understand every word that I said, whereas on shore there is many a great jolterhead, like thyself, who might be a Portugee for all the English that he knows, and who stares at me like a pig in a hurricane if I do lint ask him what he makes the reckoning, or how many bells have gone.