释义 |
numskulled, a.|ˈnʌmskʌld| [f. prec. + -ed2.] Dull- or slow-witted; stupid.
1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 12 His Proxy, some numb-skull'd Officer, whom he most esteems. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. xii, That Clod-pated, Numskull'd, Ninny-hammer of yours. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quixote II. 361 Is it possible that your worship is so numskulled and so lacking in brains? Hence numˈskulledness.
1885Sat. Rev. 28 Nov. 717 The practitioners of this black art..carried it out with at least a heroic consistency of numskulledness. |