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Etymology

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sap +‎ skull

Noun

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sapskull (plural sapskulls)

  1. A stupid person; a saphead.
    • 2002, A Country Courtship[1], page 101:
      "Let go of my reins, you cow-handed sapskull!" Tassie reared as Pamela jerked her reins from the baronet's hands and smacked at him with her crop.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sapskull”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)