English edit

Etymology edit

chuckle +‎ headed

Adjective edit

chuckleheaded (comparative more chuckleheaded, superlative most chuckleheaded)

  1. stupid, idiotic
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid
    • 2008 April 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Novelist’s Crash Course on Terror”, in New York Times[1]:
      In one of these chuckleheaded essays about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Martin Amis complains about the use of the shorthand 9/11: “My principal objection to the numbers is that they are numbers,” he writes in “The Second Plane.”