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dolt
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dolt has 1 sense
- dolt(n = noun.person) dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person - a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" has particulars: berk, blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead, klutz
is a kind of simple, simpleton
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dolt, n. a stupid person.
Derivative
doltish adj. doltishly adv. doltishness n.
Etymology
app. related to dol, dold, obs. var. of DULL
THESAURUS
dolt
Boeotian, ass, birdbrain, block, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, bonehead, boob, booby, boor, botcher, bumbler, bungler, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, dimwit, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dolthead, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, flake, fool, fumbler, gawk, goon, gowk, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jerk, jobbernowl, klutz, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, lout, lubber, lunkhead, moron, muggins, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, numskull, oaf, ox, pinhead, put, simpleton, slouch, slubberer, stupid, thickwit, twit, witling, yokelROGET THESAURUS
dolt
Fool
N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.
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