dolt
1dolt — dolt; dolt·ish; dolt·ish·ly; dolt·ish·ness; …
2dolt — (d[=o]lt; 110), n. [OE. dulte, prop. p. p. of dullen to dull. See {Dull}.] A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. [1913 Webster] This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton. [1913 Webster] …
3dolt — dolt, v. i. To behave foolishly. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …
4dolt — [dōlt] n. [prob. < ME dolte, pp. of dullen: see DULL, vt. vi.] a stupid, slow witted person; blockhead doltish adj. doltishly adv. doltishness n …
5dolt — [dəult US doult] n old fashioned [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Perhaps from dold stupid (1400 1500)] a silly or stupid person >doltish adj …
6dolt — [ doult ] noun count a stupid person …
7dolt — (n.) 1540s, perhaps a variant of dold dull, foolish, influenced by dulte, dolte, pp. forms of M.E. dullen to dull, make or become dazed or stupid (see DULL (Cf. dull)). Related: Doltish; doltishly; doltishness …
8dolt — [n] stupid person airhead*, blockhead*, boob*, chump*, dimwit*, dodo*, dope, dork*, dumbbell*, dumdum*, dunce, fool, goon*, idiot, ignoramus, lamebrain*, lunkhead*, meathead*, nitwit*, sap*, simpleton, stupid, yo yo*; concepts 412,423 Ant. brain …
9dolt — ► NOUN ▪ a stupid person. DERIVATIVES doltish adjective. ORIGIN perhaps a variant of dulled, from DULL(Cf. ↑dulness) …
10dolt — A dolt is a dull person, a blockhead. The word has been in use since at least the sixteenth century, and was thus available to Shakespeare. He has Pandarus, in Troilus and Cressida, refer to the ‘asses, fools, dolts’, meaning the ordinary… …
