feather-headed

See also: featherheaded

English

Adjective

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

  1. (colloquial) giddy; frivolous; foolish
    • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda Book VII, Chapter 54
      ... 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,

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 feather-headed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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