pudding head

1. 1.

   a person who is not very bright

   “The economy, stupid!”

   Synonymsstupidstupid personstupedullarddoltpudden-headpoor fishpillock

   Broadersimpleton

   Narrowerberkdunceklutz

Questions about pudding head

What does pudding head mean?

pudding head means "a person who is not very bright".

What is another word for pudding head?

Close synonyms include stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pudding head a common word?

pudding head is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.