dolt

4 definitions found

dolt - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  dolt \dolt\, v. i.
     To behave foolishly. [Obs.]
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dolt - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dolt
      n 1: a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
           [syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard,
           dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish,
           pillock]

dolt - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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