bottlehead

English

Etymology

bottle +‎ head

Noun

bottlehead (plural bottleheads)

1. (archaic) The bottlenose whale
2. A beetlehead; a fool
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     But why , for a blind bottle-head, did not ye ask the guineas?

References

“bottlehead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• table d'hote, table d'hôte