buffle-headed

buffle-headed (comparative more buffle-headed, superlative most buffle-headed)

1. (obsolete) Having a large head, like a buffalo's.
2. (obsolete) dull; stupid; blundering
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot:

     So fell this buffle-headed Gyant by the hand of Don Quixot

   • 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:

     A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid

• boofhead
• bufflehead