Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chuckleheaded

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chuck-le-head-ed
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

stupid, idiotic

Example Sentences

"Though a good chuckle-headed fellow, and free with his bread and cheese, he seemed to have his lord the Abbot on the brain[.]"
"In one of these chuckleheaded essays about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Martin Amis complains about the use of the shorthand 9/11: “My principal objection to the numbers is that they are numbers,” he writes in “The Second Plane.”"

Etymology

From chuckle + headed.

Inflected Forms

more chuckleheaded (comparative) most chuckleheaded (superlative)

Derived Forms

chuckleheadedness

Synonyms

addlebrained addlepated airheaded bee-brained beef-witted soft beefheaded beetle-headed birdbrained blockheaded Boeotian boneheaded

Questions

What does chuckleheaded mean?: stupid, idiotic
Where does chuckleheaded come from?: From chuckle + headed.

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