mullet-headed

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English

Etymology

From mullet +‎ headed.

Adjective

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

  1. Foolish; dimwitted.
    • 1884, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn:
      They're so confiding and mullet-headed they don't take notice of nothing at all.
    • 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad:
      Well, it's enough to make a body sick, such mullet-headed ignorance!
  2. Having a mullet hairstyle.
    • 2004, Julia Nunes, Scott Simmie, Beyond Crazy: Journeys Through Mental Illness:
      One by one, he introduces his band, this latest incarnation of The Hawks, all mullet-headed and middle-aged.