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Skinhead vs Bonehead - What's the difference?

skinhead | bonehead |

As nouns the difference between skinhead and bonehead

is that skinhead is someone with a shaved head while bonehead is someone who is stubborn, thick-skulled, or stupid.

skinhead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone with a shaved head.
  • Member of the skinhead subculture arising in late 1960s England or its diaspora, often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.

    • Synonyms

    * baldie * boot boy * bovver boy * skin (short for skinhead) * slaphead

    bonehead

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia bonehead) (en noun)
  • (slang) Someone who is stubborn, thick-skulled, or stupid.
  • * 1921 , James Huneker, Variations , page 248:
    • Musical Potterism, for example, is everywhere rampant. It bobs up]] in music criticisms and peeps forth in daily intercourse. "Give me good old ," cries the classical Potterite, "and keep your modern kickshaws. Mozart is good enough for me!" Alas, we think Mozart is too good for this bonehead , who no doubt prefers a Broadway comic opera to [[w:The Marriage of Figaro, The Marriage of Figaro.

    Derived terms

    * boneheaded