knothead
Example Sentences
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His voice is recognizably Hanks, with lots of Norman Rockwell phrasing: lollygagging, yowza, thanked his lucky stars, titmouse, knothead, atta baby.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2017
Nothing in the oath that says you can wander off the path and act like a knothead whenever you feel like it, or only follow the orders you feel good about.
From Time • Jun. 5, 2013
There is something funny about his knothead exuberance and something unsettling and dangerous about it too.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is something of the authentic knothead about Redford.
From Time Magazine Archive
He's a knothead, trying to disguise his essentially moral nature and his native shrewdness with a lot of good-ole-boy aw shucksing.
From Time Magazine Archive
