wondered how long it would take the dunderheads at the head office to screw things up
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Back in 1848, being called a goose was like being called a dunderhead.—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2024 But don't be too quick to write off these tiny critters as dunderheads.—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023 The story’s hero, Nat (no last name given) is a classic le Carré character, a skilled mid-level field operative in the secret British intelligence services who is underappreciated and sometimes abused by the dunderheads above him.—Richard Lipez, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
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Etymology
perhaps from Dutch donder thunder + English head; akin to Old High German thonar thunder — more at thunder entry 1
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