The phrase "a blockhead" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is perceived as foolish or lacking intelligence.
Example: "Despite his many talents, he can be such a blockhead when it comes to common sense."
Alternatives: "a fool" or "an idiot".
I am, in fact, a blockhead.
"It was just me being a blockhead.
"No one but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money," said Samuel Johnson.
CALEB CRAIN: And no one but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money," Samuel Johnson declared.
Whereas Ordell is right there in a couple of deft strokes, egging Richard on, and Richard himself, well, even the words "he thought a moment" put us instantly in the presence of a major blockhead — a wannabe cop, who, it transpires, collects Nazi memorabilia.
Years later, Newman taught me how to be a human blockhead -- a stunt in which a nail, or in my case, a plastic cocktail sword, is inserted through the nose and into the head.
After winning an excellence award for best overall production last month at the New York International Fringe Festival, Bert V. Royal's "unauthorized parody" of the Peanuts gang, "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead," has made a rapid transfer to the SoHo Playhouse, where it will run until Sunday.
The film sees Emmet Brickowski Chris Prattt), an ordinary blockhead, mistaken for a "master builder", an anarchic construction expert capable of working at great speed on any design in the Lego universe, even the ones that need adult supervision.
Correction: September 22, 2004, Wednesday A correction in this space on Friday about a theater review of "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead," at the SoHo Playhouse, was published in error.
