conehead
Peaked skull shape
A conehead is a person with an unusually elongated or pointed skull, or someone wearing a pointed hat or helmet that creates that silhouette.
The term gained cultural traction from a 1970s Saturday Night Live sketch featuring aliens with tall cone-shaped heads who spoke in stilted English.
Conehead can also be a mild insult suggesting stupidity or social awkwardness: Don't be such a conehead.
Weekly late-night sketch program
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- NBCAmerican television network
- 1970sFourth decade, twentieth century
- FranceWestern European republic
Dan Aykroyd · costume · prosthetic · catchphrase · Connie · Ronnie · consume · suburban
Woody seed-bearing structure
- coniferCone-bearing tree
- gymnospermExposed-seed plant
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
bract · pine · fir · spruce · larch · hemlock · cycad · ovulate
Diverse freshwater fish family
- freshwaterNon-saline aquatic environment
- AfricanOf that southern continent
- aquariumTank for keeping fish
- TanganyikaFormer East African nation
spawning · territorial · morphology · fish
Saturday Night Live
Weekly late-night sketch program
Dan Aykroyd · France · costume · prosthetic · catchphrase · Connie · Ronnie · consume · suburban · aliens
pinecone
Woody seed-bearing structure
- coniferCone-bearing tree
- gymnospermExposed-seed plant
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
seed · bract · pine · fir · spruce · larch · hemlock · cycad · ovulate · pollen
cichlid
Diverse freshwater fish family
- freshwaterNon-saline aquatic environment
- AfricanOf that southern continent
- aquariumTank for keeping fish
Tanganyika · spawning · territorial · morphology · fish
dunce
Slow-witted person
simpleton · blockhead · airhead · bonehead · numbskull · nitwit · dullard · ignoramus · knucklehead · thickhead