jobbernowl

noun

1. A person's head, particularly if misshapen or blocky.

   [She...] bathed his jobbernowl thrice in the fountain; then threw a handful of meal on his phiz …

2. A stupid person; a blockhead

   “And a noodle and a jolt-head; you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a block-headed numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter!” I shrieked the last epithet.

Where it comes from

From Middle English [Term?], compare French jobard (“gullible, crazy”) and English noll (“head”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry jobbernowl (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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