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dolt

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4 lettersPronunciation /dɒlt/Part of speech nounSorted dlotStarts with DEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person who is not very bright

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt:[…]
  • Moſt Monſter-like, be ſhewne / For poor'ſt Diminutiues, for Dolts, […]
  • This Puck seemes but a dreaming dolt.

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