airhead

Plural: airheads

Noun

• A foolish or unintelligent person.
• a flighty scatterbrained simpleton
  • "she's a total airhead"
  • "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one"
• a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
• An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.
• A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.
• Alternative form of air-head (“a horizontal channel providing ventilation in a mine.”).
• A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.

Examples

• I felt like an AIRHEAD for missing the obvious seven-letter word on my rack.

Synonyms

Alternative spelling of dumbass., Boeotian, Charlie, Vulgar:, addle pate, addle-brain, addlehead, airhead, airling, ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asstard, asswipe, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead, blubberbrain, bonehead, boob, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubble brain, bubblehead, bufflehead, buffoon, buttbreath, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, cittern-head, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, deadhead, dildo, dim bulb, dimbo, dimbus, dimwit, ding dong, dingbat, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipshit, dipstick, doldrum, dolt, donkey dick, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dumbshit, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, eejit, farthead, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fleabrain, fool, fopdoodle, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, galoot, gimboid, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goose, goosecap, gorbuson, gudgeon, ha'porth, halfwit, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jackass, jellybrain, jerk, juggins, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, maroon, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, muggins, mushhead, mutt, muttonhead, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, numbskull, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, peckerhead, pigwidgeon, pillock, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, retard, sap, saphead, schmo, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, silly, simp, simpleton, snapperhead, sot, space cadet, spanner, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, tard, thickhead, thicko, thickskull, tomfool, tonto, toolbox, tosspot, turkey, twat, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yo-yo, zany