English Explanatory Dictionary

concrete-head

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stupid person; sometimes one who is being stubborn to the point of stupidity.
  2. A person who is stuck in their ways; one who is unwilling to try new ideas.

Word forms

concrete-head concrete-heads

Etymology

Purportedly from a calque from Japanese 頭(あたま)が固(かた)い (atama ga katai, “resistant to new ways of thinking”, literally “having a hard head”). Possibly originally from unattested Taiwanese Japanese *頭(あたま)コンクリート (atama konkurīto, literally “concrete-head”), which can be reconstructed from the phonetic borrowing of Taiwanese Mandarin 阿達馬孔固力／阿达马孔固力 (ādámǎ kǒnggùlì, “concrete-head”).

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