lunkhead
Example Sentences
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“Lucky there’s a family guy,” a chorus of friends, neighbors and relatives sing about the lunkhead Peter Griffin in the razzle-dazzle opening of each episode of “Family Guy” — more than 400 and counting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
The Chevy’s somewhat jockish, lunkhead vibe was easy to lampoon, notably in the Dead Milkmen’s tart 1984 song, “Bitchin’ Camaro.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Perrotta, who wrote the novel the series is based on as well as the pilot script, never specifies how Brendan becomes the lunkhead that he is.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2019
Not So Proud Papa Our son is an unmotivated lunkhead.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2012
I was a great big, strong, clumsy lunkhead, an' the only thing I could do, even in a one-horse college, was to play base ball, so they kep' me along jest for that.
From Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
