dolt
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See also: dőlt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /dɒlt/, IPA(key): /dəʊlt/, /dɔʊlt/
- (US) IPA(key): /doʊlt/
- Rhymes: -əʊlt
Audio (UK): (file)
Noun
[edit]dolt (plural dolts)
- (derogatory) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 337:
- O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt: […]
- c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xii], page 361:
- Moſt Monſter-like, be ſhewne / For poor'ſt Diminutiues, for Dolts, […]
- 1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for VVilliam Lee, […], published 1631, →OCLC:
- This Puck seemes but a dreaming dolt.
- 2010 October 8, By Dennis Lim, “Another Dimension of Idiocy”, in New York Times[1]:
- Those who loathe “Jackass” — which brought the world beer enemas and urine snow cones and thrust its merry band of dolts into reptile lairs and shark-infested waters — have called it disgusting and irresponsible: an incitement to copycat idiocy, if not a sign of the end of Western civilization.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard
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Verb
[edit]dolt (third-person singular simple present dolts, present participle dolting, simple past and past participle dolted)
- (obsolete) To behave foolishly.
- To fool; to trick
- 1674, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester:
- Some by frequent Practice will never be dolted
References
[edit]- “dolt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]dolt
- inflection of dollen:
Manx
[edit]Verb
[edit]dolt (verbal noun doltey, past participle doltit)
Synonyms
[edit]- (to foster): doltaghey
Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dolt
Verb
[edit]dolt
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