: a stupid person
Synonyms
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- cluck
- clunk
- cretin
- cuddy [British dialect]
- cuddie
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- dolt
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- meathead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- prat [British]
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schlub [slang]
- shlub
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of fathead in a Sentence
Don't be such a fathead!
so who's the fathead who messed around with my movie collection?
Recent Examples on the Web
The 3- to 7-acre nursery ponds were poisoned with rotenone to kill out any existing fish before the Florida fish were stocked, along with forage species, including bluegill, threadfin shad and fathead minnows.
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Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 July 2022
After 18 days of exposure to the drugs, the fish - juvenile fathead minnows - had their brains removed and the expression levels of various genes measured using a genetic microarray.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2012
Swan bought him a Joe Burrow fathead to hang up, too – this IS an Ohio bar – and urged him to show Bengals games.
—The Enquirer, 8 Dec. 2022
Gibala, ever the showman, raffled off chances to cut off parts of the Mayfield fathead but left the head for Swan.
—The Enquirer, 8 Dec. 2022
The lake has been restocked with black bass, bluegill, redear bream, and fathead minnows, according to the listing.
—Gabriel Romero, Chron, 24 Aug. 2022
Included in the sale are channel catfish, largemouth bass, triploid grass carp, hybrid bluegill, redear sunfish, golden shiner, fathead minnows and bluegill.
—Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2022
Walleye, Northern pike, largemouth bass, channel catfish, fathead minnows, green sunfish and bluegill are found in the lake.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
The best presentation was a 2- to 3-inch-long fathead minnow live-hooked through the top of its back and fished within a foot of the bottom.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2022
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Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 July 2022
After 18 days of exposure to the drugs, the fish - juvenile fathead minnows - had their brains removed and the expression levels of various genes measured using a genetic microarray.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2012
Swan bought him a Joe Burrow fathead to hang up, too – this IS an Ohio bar – and urged him to show Bengals games.
—The Enquirer, 8 Dec. 2022
Gibala, ever the showman, raffled off chances to cut off parts of the Mayfield fathead but left the head for Swan.
—The Enquirer, 8 Dec. 2022
The lake has been restocked with black bass, bluegill, redear bream, and fathead minnows, according to the listing.
—Gabriel Romero, Chron, 24 Aug. 2022
Included in the sale are channel catfish, largemouth bass, triploid grass carp, hybrid bluegill, redear sunfish, golden shiner, fathead minnows and bluegill.
—Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2022
Walleye, Northern pike, largemouth bass, channel catfish, fathead minnows, green sunfish and bluegill are found in the lake.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
The best presentation was a 2- to 3-inch-long fathead minnow live-hooked through the top of its back and fished within a foot of the bottom.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1842, in the meaning defined above
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“Fathead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fathead. Accessed 6 Dec. 2023.
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fathead
noun
fat·head
ˈfat-ˌhed 
: a stupid person
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