cymling-head n Also cymblin-head, cymlin-~, sim(b)lin-~ chiefly Sth, S Midl
A person’s head resembling a cymling n 1 in size, shape, or lack of brains; a person with such a head; a fool; hence adj cymling-headed foolish.
1854 Daily Comet (Baton Rouge LA) 21 Mar [2]/2, Were it a fixed fact that some simblin headed fellow, occupying the dignified position of a place in the Lower House, should get up and move again and some one after him move the “previous question” until the Gothic structure tumbles in with age, still it is important that we should have good and true men in the board. 1856 Hannibal Natl. Democrat (MO) 13 Nov [2]/1, Now if the simlin-head who scribbles for the Sentinel wishes to controvert our position, . . let him “pitch in.” 1885 Hartford Herald (KY) 21 Oct 1/5, This double-jointed frame is topped out with a little three by four simlin head, which is adorned with a mass of unruly hair. 1895 Edgefield Advt. (SC) 26 June [3]/3, [Letter:] His “simlin head” has managed to get filled with some of the queerest, quaintest ideas as to the school system that ever exercised a human being. 1906 DN 3.156 nwAR, Sim(b)lin head. . . A person of inferior mentality. 1909 DN 3.369 eAL, wGA, Sim(b)lin-head. . . A fool, an idiot. Ibid 370, Sim(b)lin-headed. . . Foolish, simple. “You simlin-headed idiot!” 1926 DN 5.399 Ozarks, Cymblin-head. . . A fool, a dunce, a squash-head. 1954 Harder Coll.cwTN, Cymlin-head. . . A stupid person. 1954 PADS 21.25 cSC, Cymling-head. . . A silly person; a dolt. 1965–70 DARE (Qu. X28, Joking words . . for a person’s head) Infs MS23, NC33, OK51, VA35, 46, Cymlin-head; KY65, NC55, Cymling-head—a small head. 1966 Orlando Sentinel (FL) 16 Jan sec A 5/2 KY, We were called a “simlin head” so often when growing up on a Kentucky farm that we believed it until we finally sold enough rabbit hides to buy a mirror . . and see that our head was flat like a simlin, but not scalloped. 1967 Courier–Jrl. (Louisville KY) 10 July [35]/2, ‘Humpy Jim’ had the longest mustache in the mountains. He could tie the mustache behind his head, and his was no simlin head, either. 1973 Allen LAUM 1.315, [The word simlin occurs only] in the derogatory personal epithet, simlin head [1 ND inf].