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fat⋅head

[fat-hed]
–noun
1. Slang. a stupid person; fool.
2. sheephead.
3. fathead minnow.

Origin:
1830–40; fat + head

fathead minnow

–noun
a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
Also called fathead.

sheep⋅head

[sheep-hed]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -head, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -heads.
a large California food fish, Semicossyphus pulcher, of the wrasse family.
Also called fathead, redfish.


Origin:
1535–45; so called from the resemblance of its teeth to those of a sheep
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fat·head   (fāt'hěd')   
n.   Slang
A stupid person.
fat'head'ed adj., fat'head'ed·ly adv., fat'head'ed·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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fathead

  1. n.
    a stupid person; someone who has fat where brains ought to be. : You can be such a fathead!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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