Also dial. cholter-head, chowter-head. [An extension of JOLT-HEAD.]
1. = JOLT-HEAD 1.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Jolter-head, a vast large Head; also Heavy and Dull.
1822. Hazlitt, Table-t., Merry England (1852), 61. They judge of the English character in the lump, as one great jolter-head, containing all the stupidity of the country.
1823. Moore, Fables Holy Alliance, ii. 10. The Easterns, in a Prince, ’tis said, Prefer what’s called a jolter-head.
1829. Scott, Diary, 18 March, in Lockhart. A misshapen dwarf, with a huge jolter-head.
2. = JOLT-HEAD 2.
1620. Shelton, Quix., IV. xviii. Who was that Iolter-head that did subscribe or ratify a warrant for the attaching of a Knight?
a. 1818. Lewis, etc. Ct. Hamilton’s Fairy Tales (1849), 68. While my jolter-head of a Genius laboured with both his body and soul.
1881. Spectator, 26 Feb., 275/2. A clerk so low in the hierarchy that Prince Bismarck can disavow him as a jolterhead without remark.
1897. E. D. Dict., Cholter-head.
