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Definition of Dunderheads
1. dunderhead [n] - See also: dunderhead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunderheads
Literary usage of Dunderheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Years in Wall Street: Or, Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on by William Worthington Fowler (1870)
"Birds of Passage on the Wing to Long Branch—Wall Street at the Watering
Places —Dowagers, Damsels and dunderheads—Saratoga the " Sweet Boon " to the ..."
2. Luck; and what came of it by Charles Mackay (1881)
"And all the dunderheads agreed with him. To obtain the payment of this sum—or as
much of it as pos- siole—it was the bounden duty of all true dunderheads ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1879)
"Here he brings his sledge-hammer upon the dunderheads without mercy : Brainless
pates are the rule, fairly- furnished ones the exception, ..."
4. Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli (1901)
"The dunderheads who wrote ' good Latin ' and 'Attic Greek' did it by a process
by means of which the youngest fellow in the school was conscious he could, ..."
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