# What's another word for Airhead?

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**Created:** [January 18, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-airhead/568101 "2011-01-18T18:53:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-airhead/568101/41 "2011-01-20T15:11:26Z")

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One of my cousins always used “chowderhead” to describe her airhead sister. Never heard it before or since, but it worked well as an inside joke.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-airhead/568101/42 "2011-01-20T15:22:24Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> “chowderhead”

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> “Meathead” is one of a large number of pejorative slang terms in English for persons perceived to be, either chronically or temporarily, a bit low on the wits scale. The human head being the home of the brain, a substantial number of these phrases end in “head,” the first part of the term delineating the supposed cause, extent or notable object of comparison of the subject’s stupitude. Thus we have “bonehead,” “clunkhead,” “fathead,” “lunkhead,” “jughead,” “chucklehead” and, my fave, “chowderhead.” The head and mind also figure in adjectives such as “osteocephalic” (a fancy Latinate form of “boneheaded”) and the blunt but elegant “brainless.”

[meathead](http://www.word-detective.com/2010/10/01/meathead/)

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