saphead

But Mr. Kellow is no saphead, and he makes objectivity a great virtue.

I bet I know what that saphead of an editor had to say without reading his letter.

My seat was next to Mrs. Martin for safe keeping, while grey eyes sat across from me and talked to an aggressive looking saphead in a watered silk waistcoat.

“Lower a boat, saphead, in a sea like this!” scoffed the first speaker.

He shook his head and cried vehemently: “What a saphead I’d be if I fell to that bait!”