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Numskull

noun

(Also spelled numbskull)

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

... said Leopold Travers. "That numskull Mondell kept me so long with his old-fashioned Tory doubts whether liberal politics are favourable to agricultural prospects. But as he owes a round sum to a Whig lawyer I had to talk with his wife, a prudent woman; convinced her that his own agricultural prospects were safest on the Whig ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... to commit murders and escape hanging. He had never prospered financially, because he lacked financial ability. He was a beast, with all a tiger's ferocity, but with hardly more than a tiger's intelligence. He was a savage numskull. An Apache Tonto would have been more than his match in the arts of murder, and very nearly his match in ...

— Overland • John William De Forest

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