saphead
Example Sentences
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But Mr. Kellow is no saphead, and he makes objectivity a great virtue.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
This kind of pitch, with its view of the consumer as saphead, is still afl too prevalent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty minutes afterwards the sergeant, crawling warily on his belly, approached a saphead and after a brief word or two dropped in.
From No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
There are some big shell-craters there, and they may be using one of them as a saphead.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
Excuse me, gentlemen, if I do the saphead act—by jinks!
From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen
