英语词汇blockhead的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

blockhead. Since the 14th century, when hats began to re- place hoods as the most popular headwear, head-shaped blocks of oak have been standard equipment in the shops of hatmak- ers. By the time of Henry VIII these blockheads, used to shape hats and wigs, had already been compared to simpletons, stu- pid people whose heads contain no more brains than a block of wood. “Your wit will not so soon out as another man’s will,” Shakespeare wrote in Coriolanus, “ ’tis strongly wedged up in a blockhead.”

词汇	blockhead
词源	blockhead. Since the 14th century, when hats began to re- place hoods as the most popular headwear, head-shaped blocks of oak have been standard equipment in the shops of hatmak- ers. By the time of Henry VIII these blockheads, used to shape hats and wigs, had already been compared to simpletons, stu- pid people whose heads contain no more brains than a block of wood. “Your wit will not so soon out as another man’s will,” Shakespeare wrote in Coriolanus, “ ’tis strongly wedged up in a blockhead.”
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