Dolt

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dolt \dolt\ (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.
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           This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt.     --Drayton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dolt \dolt\, v. i.
     To behave foolishly. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dolt
       n : a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
           [syn: {stupid}, {stupid person}, {dullard}, {pudding head},
            {pudden-head}, {poor fish}, {pillock}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, yokel