pudding-head

Look ye, pudding-heads should never grant premises.

Well, how could I, with all my gifts, make any valuable preparation against a near-sighted, cross-eyed, pudding-headed clown who would aim himself at the wrong tree and hit the right one?

If any of the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked, then he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude: --The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk Whale; the Pudding-Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale; the Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; etc.

Pudding-head Wilson" [really--just like that] --and no, he didn't see a need to delve into historical facts about how and why the novel was written, or to poke those mounds of informed commentary that have accumulated since.

IT may have made a stonking great profit at the box office, but if this is supposed to be Pride and Prejudice for the 21st century, why has Bridget been reduced to a pudding-head dork with the IQ of a cucumber?