as in fool
a silly flighty person
gave his son-in-law a position in the company where the softhead could do little harm
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Noun
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Looking for trends after 20-something games is a fool’s errand, of course.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026 -
There was always a comedian on somebody’s album doing a skit or some funny one-liners or in the video acting a fool.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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On the other hand, she was recently seen getting dinner with Geese front man Cameron Winter, and the music video features a swan, which is basically a goose.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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Search for goose attack suspect Maryland State Police responded to the call, but said when troopers arrived, the suspects were gone, and the goose appeared uninjured.—
Ashley Paul,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But no, sillies: Bradley is white, famous and pretty — no jail time for her!—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
17 Sep. 2025
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It was shot in portrait because it was shot in Instagram by and for a woman who was losing her mind in quarantine and had fully let the sillies take the wheel.—
Ego Nwodim,
TIME,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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One page has handbag ideas, and, true to form, there is a cuckoo-clock purse, a pyramid purse, a purse shaped as a well.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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The Thunder’s main stopper is cuckoo for closeouts.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Winnie, on the other hand, is a flibbertigibbet of stream-of-consciousness.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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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
Noun
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There’s a tramp, a ditz, a bad boss, a hippie, a by-the-book good girl.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Rather than stay pigeonholed as a ditz, Simpson (who just released new music for the first time in 15 years) went on to launch her own fashion brand, which hit $1 billion in sales in 2015 and is still going strong today.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Softhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softhead. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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