But on this occasion Mr Salmond probably meant a "saphead" or plodding fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online]

He doesn't fancy Captain Billy Morgan, thinks him rather a saphead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

Willy said in a ma tier-of-fact voice: "He's such a saphead I never thought he'd come after you, Phylly I mean, he's not really stuck on you, is he?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Last April Fair]

The logic and philosophy of the great deist and agnostic was worth more to the Colonies, and did more injury to King George and his murdering minions, than all the purblind, bigoted, saphead pulpit thumpers who ever preached for ready cash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference

And so he came to the saphead, and cautiously peered in.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

But I doubt if you'll find even that saphead as rank as you three wise guys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On] Reference

"Go over to that saphead there -- d'you see it -- an 'see what thinking does.".    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

In terms of modules placed, the third quarter marked another new record for saphead with a total of 879 modules.    From Wordnik.com.  [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference

Attributively, this on slattern, and i was amiidae to antipasto out of saphead to new phoner on psilomelane spray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The dirty little saphead -- Look here, Blenham; you've got more gumption than most: tell me how far things have gone an 'what.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man to Man] Reference

Twenty minutes afterwards the sergeant, crawling warily on his belly, approached a saphead and after a brief word or two dropped in.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

Baines set him down as the sort of young man who would play Kelly pool with money his mother earned by doing laundry, and, in addition, catalogued him as a "saphead.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Scattergood Baines] Reference

To the near lips of each crater a sap ran out from the front line, so that merely the great yawning hole lay between the saphead and the corresponding abode of the Germans on the other lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

Us married just five months, and her the nicest girl living, and you keeping us flat broke all the time, you damned old thief, so you can put money away for your saphead of a son and your wishywashy fool of a daughter!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babbitt] Reference

A cowhand is the most overworked and underpaid saphead that ever lost three nights 'sleep hand running and worked seventy-two hours on end; sleep in the rain or not at all -- to hold a job at forty per for six months in the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settling of the Sage] Reference

You don’t seem to know anything, somehow — perfect saphead.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference

"You mean," her husband retorted, "how are you going to contrive the proper background against which Betty shall display her charms to the different varieties of saphead which you hit upon as being eligible to marry her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Man's Rock] Reference

You don't seem to know anything, somehow -- perfect saphead. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference

MAURY: Shut up, you saphead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

You are at liberty to regard me as a saphead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Dust] Reference

A saphead. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story] Reference

"What'll you do, saphead?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael O'Halloran] Reference