codshead
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Noun
codshead (plural codsheads)
- (derogatory) A stupid person; a fool.
- Synonyms: dunderhead, numbskull; see also Thesaurus:fool
- 1957, Thomas B. Costain, Below the Salt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 172:
- He interrupted this harangue to roar at an assistant. "What's this you're bringing out, you miserable, sniveling codshead?"
- 1999, Barbara Metzger, The Primrose Path, Thorndike, M.E.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 111:
- "No codes, and only one contact, Knowle; that's all the scribbler would deal with. Safer all around, what? Even if it meant we didn't know the bloke's identity. That chap, the contact, is already in London, safe as houses. We aren't complete codsheads, what?"
- 2017, Cinda Williams Chima, Shadowcaster, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, →ISBN, page 94:
- Whacks was a sorry codshead of a manager, to tell the truth.
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- “cod’s head, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “cod's head”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
