featherheadedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

feather-headed (comparative more feather-headed, superlative most feather-headed)

1. (colloquial) foolish or frivolous
   • 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 54, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     ... some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them,

   • 2003, James C. Ferguson, Context Clues: A Basil Coventry Misadventure:

     “You may be a feather—headed imbecile but is it a crime to be a feather-headed imbecile? What could you have possibly done to deserve this?”

   • 2010, Barri Bryan, Bridget's Secret:

     Lucky wondered as he stood if there was anything worse than some foolishly romantic, feather headed old maid?

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having feathers on one's head.

参照

• feather-headed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913