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Etymology

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From fat +‎ head.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfæt.hɛd/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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fathead (plural fatheads)

  1. (derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
    You fathead! You forgot to put the milk in the fridge and now it's spoiled!
    • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:
      ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’
  2. A cyprinid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
  3. A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.
  4. A blobfish, Psychrolutes microporos
  5. Any of several species of fish of the genus Cubiceps

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of derogatory): genius

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References

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fathead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.