featherhead

noun

ˈfe-t͟hər-ˌhed How to pronounce featherhead (audio)
Definition of featherheadnext
1
as in lunatic
a person who lacks good sense or judgment discovered that the sales clerk was not a featherhead, but had made an honest mistake

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2
as in flibbertigibbet
a silly flighty person too important a diplomatic post to assign to some congenial featherhead

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for featherhead
  1. flibbertigibbet
  2. fool
  3. goose
  4. ditz
  5. cuckoo
  6. birdbrain
  7. simpleton
  8. nitwit
Noun
  • Duvall is a big reason why: All the film’s insights into the slipperiness of identity are there in her casually virtuosic, veritable dual performance, in which a funny flibbertigibbet loses hold of herself as the world around seems to splinter into something frighteningly new.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024
  • Projects about Monroe have handled her personal life to varying degrees of success, often leaning into her flibbertigibbet persona, her struggles with addiction, and the paradox of her oozing sexuality and her little girl brokenness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
Definition of flibbertigibbet
Noun
  • For his part, Jon Stewart, who was broadcasting live as the results came in during The Daily Show’s Election Night special, would like to remind us that all of these premature attempts at diagnosis are a fool’s errand.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • And their shooting, which new Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson warned pregame might be a bit of fool’s gold, didn’t come close to slowing down.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of fool
Noun
  • After 1935, duck and goose hunters were limited to fake decoys.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Other academics were less incredulous, suggesting that the paper was a wild goose chase — a phrase itself invented by Shakespeare.
    David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of goose
Noun
  • Her foothold in the entertainment industry firmly established, Grande soon landed her breakthrough role as the loveable ditz Cat Valentine on Nickelodeon’s Victorious.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Allen’s dramatic assertions about the lusts of movie men for a nubile young woman are matched by his contemptuous depiction of her as a ditz out of her depth, especially as compared to the soulful rebel Gatsby, who throws her over for a younger girl (Gomez).
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Definition of ditz
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  • For evolutionary biologists, the term cuckoldry originated to describe cuckoo birds who lay their eggs in other species’ nests, leaving their offspring to be unknowingly raised by foster parents.
    Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The loss of common cuckoos, meanwhile, means that spring arrives in the U.K. without its iconic song.
    Jared Del Rosso, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of cuckoo
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  • Should former President Trump stop calling Ambassador Haley birdbrain?
    CBS News, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • By solving one kind of puzzle that stumped crows, though, the kids may have shown how a human mind treats problems differently than a birdbrain.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2012
Definition of birdbrain
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  • Gamble, seeing there was no way to get anywhere with the chancellor playing the simpleton, opened the floor to softball questions.
    Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Americans, even or especially historians, tend to treat the early New Englanders as dogmatists: narrow, pious simpletons.
    Marilynne Robinson, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022
Definition of simpleton
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  • The white supremacist rally that interrupted the mayor's lunch in Howell on Saturday wasn't overly impressive, really — just a dozen or so nitwits, and one ghost.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2024
  • The nitwits were chased off by a woman from the local library board.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2024
Definition of nitwit
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