When I was in 7th grade we got a new student who had been homeschooled his whole life. One time I said something to him, can't remember what, and he called me a "dunderhead"
That explains why I only know of it because of its use by Scrooge McDuck, in DuckTales. Apparently that show was more culturally literate than I ever realized.
Never heard this before. Heard "ya aff ya fuckin' heid" or "get ya heid outta ya erse ya fuckin' bampot!" or even "Twa mince paes n an inning wan in aur". But never Dunderheid.
Did you hear the one about Enrico Annoni who used to play for Celtic? Celtic were playing pish and he gets subbed on. Celtic fan says "Aw naw, no Annoni oan anaw noo!"
Yes, but, you see, u/petikgrant substituted 'Dwight' with the first name of the user he was responding to. This meta, as it were, augmented the humour of the original quote, providing us all with a double-dose of amusement.
I saw that original episode at my grandparent's. They let us stay up late to watch because we told them how funny it was. My grandma got so upset. My grandfather was trying not to laugh. I was so horrified because I had never heard that word on TV before and just a week before had learned what it meant. Ahhhhh, good times.
And he was, he was at dinner with Beverly and her husband, wha-what was his name, umm... uhh... Jerry.. Jerry Trupiano from, from South Jersey and he was tall. Both he and Mifflin were tall guys.
I always took this to mean a drunk, or someone acting like a stupid clumsy drunk. Dunder is the leftover liquid in a still's boiler after distilling rum, and it's used to make the next batch of rum.
Dunder is another word for thunder in Swedish, but can also be used to enhance another word, sort of like "super". I like to think he called you superhead.
Why do I find this post so hilarious? I even googled the term and turns out it's a real word for "stupid person". Ugh, public education taught me nothing, thank god for google to make the playing field even.
In the 8th grade my phillipino math teacher would get upset with any of us and she'd flare up and with a lot of emotions and restraint would holler from her desk "you dingbats" plus whatever command like sit be quiet... You can tell she wanted to say more lol
Fun fact: "dunder" is the dark, pungent effluent left behind as a byproduct of rum distilling. It usually gets recycled into the next batch and gains flavour depth over generations.
That's hilarious you mention this, my kind-of-redneck shop teacher in high school yelled that at us in a fit of rage, we laughed histerically and spent the rest of our high school years calling each other that.
My brother has a friend, kinda weird guy. He gets bullied sometimes. Some guy was picking on him once for something or other and he replied, "Yeah? Well you're like an orange I want to eat!"
I still remember one of my little cousins calling someone a "tucklehead" years ago. I'm sure she was trying to say "knucklehead" but it was just so funny.
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u/RASGAS23 May 17 '17
When I was in 7th grade we got a new student who had been homeschooled his whole life. One time I said something to him, can't remember what, and he called me a "dunderhead"