chucklehead

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   informal, disparaging: a stupid, foolish, or clumsy person

   Huck thought only a crowd of prejudiced chuckleheads could believe the impostor.

2. 2
   noun

   US: a coastal rockfish of California, Sebastes chlorostictus

   The angler released the young chucklehead near the reef.

From obsolete or dialectal chuckle, 'clumsy,' + -head, a productive ending in insults such as blockhead. The Californian fish name is a later regional application.

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