Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun loggerhead

2 senses of loggerhead

Sense 1
dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead -- (a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence)
       => stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock -- (a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!")

Sense 2
loggerhead, loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta -- (very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas)
       => sea turtle, marine turtle -- (any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas)