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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest appearance of the phrase dead as a doornail appears in William Langland's 14th century religious allegorical poem, Piers Plowman. The relevant line in the original poem stated, Fey withouten fait is febelore Ã¾en nouÈt, And ded as a dore-nayl..
I heard this once just a couple months ago and took it to mean a large rock outcropping or boulder. The idea behind it is that a black person's head is as hard as a rock, or that he's as dumb as a rock. There was no mistaking this derivation when I heard it from the older man in his late 70s.he Dish's collective mind shows off a bit: When I was growing up in southern Mississippi in the 1950s, most grocery stores carried Niggerhead brand shrimp, which was canned in southern Louisiana. The label featured a drawing of a old black man with a lined face and nappy hair.