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puddinghead

slang A foolish, stupid, or idiotic person (i.e., someone with pudding for brains). It's no surprise to me that the country's economy is tanking with that puddinghead in charge. How can you be such a puddinghead about this?
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puddinghead

n. someone, usually a male, who acts very stupid. That puddinghead sold my antique table for junk!
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He refutes the notion of Jefferson as a "nostalgic pudding-head, obsessed with installing millions of Horatian farmers in the vast American wilderness." Burstein admits that Jefferson is not a mind of the highest profundity or creativity, compared to, say, Hume or Smith.
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