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Nitwit

//ˈnɪtwɪt// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A scatterbrained or stupid person. informal

    "If you don't remember you are a nitwit. If you do answer, well, you know what the penalty is for perjury."

  2. 2
    a stupid incompetent person wordnet

Etymology

First attested in the 1910s in the US Northeast. Likely from German nit, dialectal form of nichts (“nothing”), or Yiddish ניט (nit), dialectal form of נישט (nisht, “no”), although some dictionaries give the alternative etymology nit (“louse egg; something very small”) + wit.

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