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Loggerhead

noun

A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence. Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead.

Very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas. Synonyms: Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle.

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"Loggerhead" Quotes from Famous Books

... this place furnished us with a dainty, in the greatest plenty and perfection, viz. the turtle. There are reckoned four species of turtle: the trunk-turtle, the loggerhead, the hawksbill, and the green turtle. The two first are rank and unwholesome; the hawksbill (which furnishes the tortoise-shell) is but indifferent food, though better than the other two; but the green turtle is esteemed, by the greatest part of those who are acquainted with ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr

... harsh and unmusical. Habits solitary and wandering. The first-named species is resident during the colder months of the year; the latter is a summer resident only north of Maryland. Northern Shrike. Loggerhead Shrike. ...

— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan

Words linked to "Loggerhead" : dullard, marine turtle, poor fish, stupe, stupid, Caretta, stupid person, genus Caretta, pudden-head, pillock, sea turtle, pudding head, dolt