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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. |