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Noun numskull has 1 sense
- numskull(n = noun.person) blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, shithead - a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence; Array is a kind of dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person
CIDE DICTIONARY
numskull, n. [Numb + skull.].
A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [1913 Webster]
"They have talked like numskulls."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
numskull, n. (also numbskull) a stupid or foolish person.
Etymology
NUMB + SKULL
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numskull
addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, blockhead, blubberhead, blunderhead, bonehead, bufflehead, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodhead, clodpate, clodpoll, dolthead, dullhead, dumbhead, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, jolterhead, jughead, knucklehead, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, noodlehead, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyheadROGET THESAURUS
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Ignoramus
N ignoramus, dunce, wooden spoon, no scholar, (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole, dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar, charlatan, wiseacre, greenhorn, amateur, novice, tyro, numskull, lubber, fool, pedant, bookless, shallow, ignorant, a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits.
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