I’m partial to knucklehead, it’s a relatively benign sort of insult that can be used in a variety of situations. Credit to sportswriter Mike Wilbon (Michael Wilbon - Wikipedia) for popularizing it.
Doorknob and dipstick get used a lot in my family. I personally like chowderhead.
My daughter started to call extremely boring people “bran muffins”, which has been shortened to “bruffins”.
My Daddy used to call people ‘numbnuts’…he called his sisters the ’ buffalo- butt twins’. He called my brother ‘hemorrhoid head’. I was ‘boo-boo’. He liked insulting nicknames.
Well, not too many people ever had the guts to call him a name other than ‘sir’. He was a Marine corps drill instructor so, no it wouldn’t have been prudent, if you valued your teeth!
You summed him up perfectly. He was a well known bully. But on the other hand he would help the poor down trodden person. And, babies loved him. His was a paradox!