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ˈunderwit
[under-1 6 a, 10 b.]
1. A poor or inferior kind of wit.
1655Shirley Politician Ded., Some abuses of the common theatres (which were not so happily purged from scurrility and under-wit—the only entertainment of vulgar capacities).
2. A person of defective understanding; a half-witted person.
Used as a surname in the Duke of Newcastle's Country Captain (1649).
1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 52 (1713) II. 75 Having often met with some of the Under-wits of that Panel, who threatened what their Foreman could have done. 1900Everybody's Mag. III. 513/2 He was a single man, and many said an underwit. |