: a stupid person
Examples of fathead in a Sentence
Don't be such a fathead!
so who's the fathead who messed around with my movie collection?
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Minnows: Big minnows, such as fatheads, shiners, or shadlings, run neck-and-neck with nightcrawlers as top-notch ‘eye bait.
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
In their ice fishing shack, armed with cheap beer and with fathead minnows for bait, Lloyd and Marvin are two guys working things out.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
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.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 July 2022
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
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
In their ice fishing shack, armed with cheap beer and with fathead minnows for bait, Lloyd and Marvin are two guys working things out.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
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.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 July 2022
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
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“Fathead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fathead. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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fathead
noun
fat·head
ˈfat-ˌhed 
: a stupid person
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