What is "muttonhead"

Usage examples of "muttonhead".

He felt personally aggrieved and unconsciously held his muttonhead companion responsible for it.

The least Forrest could do for the muttonhead was play Good Samaritan with some good advice.

Why, you muttonhead, I found him where he was bleeding to death and brought him in.

Only death will part me from my husband, not muttonheaded, well-meaning, misguided Englishmen or Scotsmen or stubborn Spanish sea captains!

I can well imagine that it's your dearest wish to see that unfortunate muttonheaded girl become the wife of a man who lets off stink bombs in night clubs and pinches the spoons and has had three divorces already and who, if the authorities play their cards right, will end up cracking rocks in Sing-Sing.

And what in the name of Thor is a jarl doing, a lord of warriors, listening to a couple of muttonheads arguing about drains?

You should spend more time with the army, and less with the muttonheads in your doom-court.

Take General Binks or Colonel Snooks, true-blue military muttonheads, brave as bedamned, athirst for glory, doing their dutiful asinine bit in half a dozen campaigns, but never truly catching the public eye, and at last selling out and retiring from obscurity to Cheltenham with a couple of wounds and barely enough to pay the club subscription, foot the memsahib's whist bill, send Adolphus to a crammer 'cos the Wellington fees are beyond them, and afford a drunken loafer to neglect the garden of Ramilles or Quatre Bras or whatever they choose to call their infernal villas.