“dimwit”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

dimwit

释义

dim-wit, dimwit colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈdɪmwɪt|
Also dim wit.
[f. dim a. + wit n.]
A stupid or slow-witted person.
1922Dialect Notes V. 141 She's the worst dim-wit on campus.1925New Yorker 20 June 15/2 An archduke, a sort of royal dim wit.1943[see bird brain s.v. bird n. 9].1944Penguin New Writing XIX. 71 ‘What's the matter?’ ‘Cramp, you dimwit, cramp!’1956‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 217 He had an uncomfortable awareness of how many ways there were for even a dimwit to contrive a fatal accident.
Hence dim-witted a., stupid, dull; dim-wittedness, the quality of being dim-witted.
1940E. B. Mann Troubled Range (1941) xi. 135 Of all the damn' dim-witted stunts!1948‘E. Crispin’ Buried for Pleasure ix. 68 They say he's got ‘a madman's cunning’, which is their excuse for being too dim-witted to catch him.196020th Cent. Oct. 359 Some Northerners..can give an impression of dim-wittedness.

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