pumpkin-headed

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   informal and insulting: stupid, foolish, or having a supposedly thick or empty head

   The angry farmer dismissed the plan as pumpkin-headed nonsense.

A compound of pumpkin + headed. The insult compares a person's head to a large, round, supposedly empty pumpkin, following the same disparaging pattern as blockheaded and cabbage-headed.

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