jolter head

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English

Noun

jolter head (plural jolter heads)

  1. A large, clumsy head; a blockhead; a dunce.
    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC:
      As to corporations, parishes, vestry-boards, and similar gatherings of jolter-headed clods ... I would have the necks of every one of them wrung and their skulls arranged in Surgeons' Hall for the contemplation of the whole profession in order that its younger members might understand from actual measurement, in early life, HOW thick skulls may become!