Dolt
/dəʊlt/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard. derogatory
"O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt:[…]"
- 2 a person who is not very bright wordnet
Verb
- 1 To behave foolishly. obsolete
- 2 To fool; to trick
"Some by frequent Practice will never be dolted"
Example
More examples"Only a dolt could fail to understand what was implied by that letter."
Etymology
First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.