ETYMOLOGY
from buffle (buffalo; a fool) + brained (having a brain of the specific kind)
EXAMPLE
“…An’ there we would swing, an’ hang there we must,
Till the hoodoo was busted. Eternally cussed,
So he said, was the buffle-brained feller that dared
To touch the witch-web that was holding us snared…”
From: Up in Maine:
Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse
– Holman Day, 1900
ETYMOLOGY
from straddle (with the legs astride)
EXAMPLE
“…If he even seen a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. …”
From: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
By S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain), 1867
ETYMOLOGY
– from jingle + brains
EXAMPLE
“…We left these Jingle Brains to their Crotchets , and proceeded to the West end of the Cathedral , where we past by abundance of Apples, Nuts, and GingerBread, till we came to a melancholly Multitude , drawn into a Circle , giving very serious Attention to a blind Ballad-singer who was mournfully setting forth the wonderful Usefulness…”
From: The London-spy Compleat, in Eighteen Parts,
Edward Ward, 1718
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