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feather-head
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synonyms: leather-head ???
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Definition:a scatterbrain; a ditz
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We have eyes for such things, though women-folk haven’t. I see a man who has serious intentions, that’s Levin: and I see a peacock, like this feather-head, who’s only amusing himself."
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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my God, how can that time be compared with now? Then I was vulgar, stupid, feather-headed, but now I am a mother, do you understand?
Anton Chekhov. Love and Other Stories
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