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Fathead   Listen
noun
Fathead  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); called also black-headed minnow.
(b)
A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fathead" Quotes from Famous Books



... Paul. Just that Fred Stone is a fathead, too. Over and out, like they say." I switched off and went ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman

... that lay the newspapers. You don't seem to catch on, fathead. Newspapers must have ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse

... little man, leaping from his bed and beginning to dress in mad haste. "You fathead, you've done a fine thing. Why, you let me believe ...
— A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari - Seven Tales of South-West Africa • Frederick Cornell

... returned to him with the following reply scrawled across the billhead: "Dear Sir—I never ordered this beastly book. If I did, you didn't send it. If you sent it, I never got it. If I got it, I paid for it. If I didn't, I won't. Now go and hang yourself, you fathead.—Yours ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher



Words linked to "Fathead" :   muggins, fool, saphead, goofball, zany, bozo



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