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- A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whom the law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any.
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IDIOT, Persons. A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whom the law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any. Shelf. on Lun. 2. 2. It is an imbe
The meaning of NUMBSKULL is a dull or stupid person : dunce. How to use numbskull in a sentence.
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the word numbskull, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
also numbskull. noun. A mentally dull person: blockhead, chump, clod, dolt, dullard, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, thickhead. Slang: dimwit, dumbbell, dumbo. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
The earliest known use of the noun numbskullism is in the 1800s. OED's earliest evidence for numbskullism is from 1806, in the writing of Anna Seward, poet and correspondent. numbskullism is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: numbskull n. & adj., ‑ism suffix. See etymology.
Definition of numbskull noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1 day ago · (nʌmskʌl ) Word forms: plural numbskulls. countable noun. If you refer to someone as a numbskull, you mean that they are very stupid . [informal, old-fashioned, disapproval] How were we to know that he was a numbskull? Synonyms: fool, charlie [British, informal], dope [informal], jerk [slang, mainly US, Canadian] More Synonyms of numbskull.
