feather-headed

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Adjective

feather-headed (comparative more feather-headed, superlative most feather-headed)

(colloquial) foolish or frivolous
- 1876, George Eliot , chapter 54, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
  ... some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them,
- 2003, James C. Ferguson, Context Clues: A Basil Coventry Misadventure:
  “You may be a feather—headed imbecile but is it a crime to be a feather-headed imbecile? What could you have possibly done to deserve this?”
- 2010, Barri Bryan, Bridget's Secret:
  Lucky wondered as he stood if there was anything worse than some foolishly romantic, feather headed old maid?
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having feathers on one's head.

References

“feather-headed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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