fathead
Example Sentences
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In the spring of 1912, Roosevelt referred to Taft as a "fathead," "puzzlewit" and "dumber than a guinea pig."
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2023
“Maybe you’re dealing with a fathead, but you’re dealing with a rich fathead.”
From New York Times • May 25, 2018
Back when the glaciers were carving out the landscape, species that naturally followed were pike and suckers, along with fathead and stickleback minnows, Weigel said.
From Washington Times • Jul. 7, 2014
I will probably be the one in the background holding a Popsicle stick fathead of Nayeli.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2014
He knew that his thanes couldn’t handle me alone, and he was too old and tired to be much impressed—however useful it might be to his kingdom—by their fathead ideas of honor.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.