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dullard, n. and a.|ˈdʌləd|
Also 5–6 dullarde, 6 dullarte, dullerde.
[f. dull a. + -ard.]
A. n. A dull or stupid person; a dolt, dunce.
c1440Promp. Parv. 114 Dastard, or dullarde, duribuctius. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. Table Script. Quot., Ps. xcii. 7 A dullard doth not know this, neither doth a foole understand it. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 342 To steale cunningly wins great reputation..and they which cannot doe it, are holden dullards and blockes. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. viii, But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard. 1880L. Stephen Pope v. 135 Cibber..might be a representative of folly, but was as little of a dullard as Pope himself.
B. adj. Stupid, inert, dull.
1583Hollyband Campo di Fior 255 In a moment he is become the most dullard and ignorant. 1598Marston Pygmal. sat. ii. 143 These darke Enigmaes..passe my dullard braines intelligence. a1748Thomson Hymn to May (R.), The dullard earth May quick'neth with delight. 1894Gladstone Horace iii. xxi. 13 Thou prickest on the dullard sense Yet gently.
Hence ˈdullardism, ˈdullardness.
1840Tait's Mag. VII. 666 Dullardness and stagnation of soul. a1846Maunder in Worcester, Dullardism. |