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▪ I. dolt, n.|dəʊlt|
Also 6 dolte, dowlte, 6–7 doult(e.
[Found with its derivatives from middle of 16th c.; perh. earlier in dialect use. App. related to OE. dol, ME. dol, doll, dull, and to dold, stupid, inert of intellect or faculty. For the -t, cf. ME. dult in sense of dulled: see dull v.]
1. A dull, stupid fellow; a blockhead, numskull.
1543[implied in doltish]. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. (Arb.) 39 Thies wysefooles and verye archedoltes. a1553Udall Royster D. iii. ii. (Arb.) 42 A very dolt and loute. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 163 Oh Gull, oh dolt, As ignorant as durt. 1658Cleveland Rustic Rampant Wks. (1687) 417 Not only these Doults, these Sots. 1725Swift Wood the Ironmonger 32 Wood's adulterate copper, Which..we like dolts Mistook at first for thunderbolts. 1847Disraeli Tancred v. i, The prerogative of dolts and dullards.
2. a. attrib. or as adj. Doltish, stupid, senseless, foolish. b. Comb., as † dolt-head, (a) a dolt, blockhead; (b) a stupid head (quot. 1711).
1679Dryden Troil. & Cress. ii. iii, Dolt-heads, asses, And beasts of burden. 1711E. Ward Quix. I. 414 As soon as each had bolted From out his Straw, and scratch'd his Dolthead. 1828Southey To A. Cunningham Poems III. 311 The dolt image is not worth its clay. 1852R. Knox Gt. Artists & Anat. 57 North Germany, the land of schnapps, and insolence, and dolt stupidity.
Hence † ˈdoltage, † ˈdoltry, the condition of a dolt; † ˈdoltify v. trans., to make a dolt of.
1559J. Aylmer Harbor. Faithf. Subj. G iij b, Women..doltefied with the dregges of the Deuils dounge hill. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 205 Where I see nobilitie betraid to donghillrie, and learning to doultrie. 1593Nashe Four Lett. Confut. G j b, I have usually seene uncircumsised doltage have the porch of his Panims pilfries very hugely pestred with praises.
▪ II. † dolt, v. Obs.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To make a dolt of, befool; to call dolt.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 74 b, When wee would abashe a man..wee either doulte hym at the firste, and make hym beleeve that he is no wiser then a goose, or [etc.]. 1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. ii. (1880) 26 Thus are the people dolted still, and fooles are made of fooles. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. 302 Certaine men be dolted, and charged with a thousand thoughts. 1818Todd, To dolt, to make dull. I have heard the word so spoken, but know no instance of it in books.
2. intr. To act like a dolt, to play the fool. Hence ˈdolting ppl. a.
1573New Custom i. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley III. 19 More better..Than in these trifles to have dolted so much. 1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 21 Touching doating or dolting Ielosy. |