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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Blockhead

A stupid person; one without brains. The allusion is to a wig maker's dummy or tête à perruque, on which he fits his wigs.

“Your wit will not so soon out as another man's will, `tis strongly wedged up in a block-head” —Shakespeare Coriolanus, ii. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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