dunderhead (dunderhed)

[Orig. E. dial., appar. I mean your grammar, O thou dunderhead . Fletcher (and another ), Elder Brother, ii. 4. Here, without staying for my reply, shall I be called as many blockheads, numskulls, doddy poles, dunderheads, ninny-hammers, . Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 25. dunderheaded (dun'der-hed" ed), a. Like a dunderhead or dunce. G. A. Sala. dunderpate (dun'der-pat) n. [ dunderhead) + pate.] Same as dunderhead. Many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 148.