What's the difference between blockhead and dolt?

Blockhead


Definition:

  • (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Formative experiences included watching Hammer horror films aged six as his babysitter passed him cigarettes, and of course Top Of The Pops: "I remember being seven and watching Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Lena Lovich.
  • (2) Wake Up and Make Love With Me – Ian Dury and the Blockheads Linguists may object to the old definition of verbs as "action" words, but tell that to Ian Dury.
  • (3) James May's service company, Blockhead & May, banks with Coutts, but is not quite in the same league as Hammond.
  • (4) It's like gazing through a horrid little window into an awesome universe of pure blockheaded spite.
  • (5) Expect many, many additional parts should the film win over blockheads.
  • (6) Not quite the point that was being made, but then Mr du Bois's name roughly translates as "blockhead".
  • (7) The Blockheads "Explore, mine, craft and build in this giant and detailed sandbox game," explained the Google Play listing for this, with the two key words being "mine" and "craft".

Dolt


Definition:

  • (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
  • (v. i.) To behave foolishly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
  • (2) 28 mins: Look at the pedantic dolts I have to deal with: "So which bit of '4 mins ... 7mins ... 10 mins' is 'minute-by-minute' commentary, exactly?"
  • (3) His predecessor, Richard Daley, was embraced as an authentic Chicagoan with no ambitions beyond the city, even if he came across in public as a monosyllabic dolt.
  • (4) Analyses were conducted on three reference standard materials certified for their methyl mercury content, DOLT-1, DORM-1, and TORT-1, provided by the National Research Council of Canada.
  • (5) The cull might help to destroy the industry these bloody-minded dolts claim to defend.
  • (6) Some dolt in a car coat jogs around for a while, before being shoved to the ground by several police officers waving sticks.
  • (7) Of course, if you have £9bn to spend on a party, surely only a dolt could fail.
  • (8) Another critique of the great war is that the troops were commanded by dolts, a fact it must be said that is contested by many eminent historians.
  • (9) That's the point of the episode, you catastrophic dolt.

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