Usually means: Lacking seriousness; frivolous, scatterbrained person.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word featherhead:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. featherhead: Merriam-Webster
  2. featherhead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. featherhead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. featherhead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Featherhead, featherhead: Wordnik
  6. featherhead: Wiktionary
  7. featherhead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. featherhead: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. featherhead: Dictionary.com
  10. featherhead: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Featherhead (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. featherhead: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. featherhead: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (featherhead)

▸ noun:  A foolish person.

Similar:
featherpate, feather-brain, featherbrain, softhead, fluffhead, sheepshead, addlehead, damnfool, feather merchant, cabbage-head, more...

Opposite:
serious-minded, practical, level-headed

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Similar:
featherpate, feather-brain, featherbrain, softhead, fluffhead, sheepshead, addlehead, damnfool, feather merchant, cabbage-head, more...

Opposite:
serious-minded, practical, level-headed



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