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Numskull

noun
(Also spelled numbskull)
1.
A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.  Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, shithead.





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"Numskull" Quotes from Famous Books



... deception! Impudent flirting is what she is fond of, as long as she can get a good-for-naught like you, or an old numskull like that Tippengray, to ...
— The Squirrel Inn • Frank R. Stockton
... development and adaptation. For illustration: Cultivation may develop a perfect specimen of a crabapple, but no amount of careful training could change the crabapple into a Johnathan. Likewise, no system of education can hope to change a numskull into a Newton, or to produce a Solomon ...
— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall


Words linked to "Numskull" :   pudding head, dolt, stupid person, pudden-head, poor fish, stupe, dullard, stupid, shithead, pillock


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