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fat-witted, a.
[f. fat a. + wit + -ed2.]
Of slow wit, dull, ‘thick-headed’.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. ii. 2 Thou art so fat-witted..that thou hast forgotten to demand that truely, which thou wouldest truly know. 1797J. Lawrence in Monthly Mag. XLVI. 215 Grave and pious, or fat-witted sophisters. 1803Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 62/1 If they are endowed, professors become fat-witted. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1883) I. 374 These..lawyers, slow-paced and fat⁓witted as they must needs be. |