as in idiot
a stupid person
what pinhead put this together backwards?
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Recent Examples of pinhead
Tiny, round exit holes — about the size of a pinhead — may appear on the bark, sometimes with dark staining or oozing sap.
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James Campbell, Mercury News, 28 July 2025
Ditto for the version dotted in micro round studs, which looked like pinheads.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 23 June 2025
Yet even capturing the identities of all 86 billion neurons, all smaller than a pinhead, plus their trillions of connections, still isn’t enough.
—Dobromir Rahnev, The Conversation, 23 May 2025
Because of a bug, only two, pinhead and pinheaded, made it into the live version.
—German Lopez, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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Noun
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
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“Pinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinhead. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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