muddlehead

English

Etymology

muddle +‎ head

Noun

muddlehead (plural muddleheads)

  1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
    • 1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events:
      The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe

References
  • muddlehead in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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