lunk*head, n. (prob. echoic alteration of lump + head)

A stupid person, a blockhead.

First appears in print, according to OED, in 1884 in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare.(ch. xxii)

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