What's the difference between blockhead and doofus?

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".

Doofus


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I don’t know if it was Obama or Hillary (I suspected Hillary), but it’s really something to focus group beforehand.” In December, when Tanden wrote in praise of the Paris climate deal, Podesta responded: “Can you believe that doofus Bernie attacked it?” Then, in March this year, Clinton strategist Minyon Moore opined: “I think Sanders is a rule breaker and has no institutional loyalty to the Democratic Party; we should expect him to ignore the rules and persist in his quest to flip superdelegates despite overwhelming evidence that reflects his considerable weaknesses with the Democratic base and no doubt in the general.” Tanden, meanwhile, pulled no punches when Clinton’s campaign hesitated over whether to condemn Democratic activist David Brock for demanding Sanders’ medical records.
  • (2) And yet us doofuses who came here to watch thought he might bother saying something interesting beyond that!
  • (3) He was, it seemed, destined to be a professional doofus.