dopinessn.
/ˈdəʊpɪnɪs/ Brit. /ˈdəʊpɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈdoʊpinəs/, New Zealand English /ˈdʌupinəs/ New Zealand.
The state or condition of being dopey.
1. New Zealand. A deficiency disease in sheep, characterized by lethargy.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1932 Discovery Nov. 357/2 Recent investigations in New Zealand testify to..the value of top dressing of pastures with lime and superphosphate where sheep are affected with dopiness diseases.
1934 L. J. Wild Soils & Manures in N.Z. (ed. 3) v. 72 The sheep disease called ‘dopiness’ occurs notably in the Mairoa district.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 33/3 Some green, succulent feed just before and at lambing assists in the prevention of diseases associated with lambing—dopiness (twin lamb disease or ante-partum paralysis) and milk fever.
2. gen.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun]
hardnessOE
stuntnessc1000
sotshipc1050
witlessnessa1100
sotheada1200
dullness1398
bluntness1483
slowness1495
grossnessa1530
stupidity?1541
assishness?1548
dastardness1552
lourderie1555
dastardliness1556
blockishness1561
doltishness1569
sottage1569
sheepishness1574
doltry1581
sottishness1589
doltage1593
dorbellism1593
grout-headry1600
opacity1611
duncery1615
dunstery1615
stupidness1619
hebetude1621
insulsity1623
unintelligence1634
obtuseness1648
jobbernowlism1652
dullery1653
non-intelligence1653
blockheadishness1656
crassness1664
blockheadedness1716
stolidness1727
blockheadism1753
numbskullity1779
nincompoophood1791
duncishness1805
numbskullism1806
foziness1821
noodledum1821
obtusity1823
soft-headedness1823
noodledom1827
duncehood1829
dunderheadedness1830
sumphishness1830
asininity1831
dunderheadism1836
stockishness1837
dullardness1840
fat-headedness1840
stupor1845
duncedom1847
misintelligence1848
nincompoopery1850
wooden-headedness1850
dumminess1852
jolterheadedness1852
ninnyship1852
donkeyism1855
dumbness1860
beef-wittedness1863
crassitude1865
donkeyhood1869
slow-wittedness1869
chuckle-headedness1880
leatherheadedness1880
pinheadedness1884
numbskulledness1885
donkeydom1889
thickheadedness1889
density1894
moronism1922
nitwittedness1931
nitwittery1931
noodleness1931
dopiness1942
squirrel-headedness1955
nincompoopism1957
dim-wittedness1960
clottishness1961
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §174/2 Dopiness, dottiness, fuddle, [etc.].
1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xi. 92 He broke my heart with dopiness.
1987 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Feb. 11/3 What Mencken used to call in The American Mercury ‘Americana’, his..inventory of American dopiness and freakishness, is..memorable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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